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Fantastique
What is distinctive about the fantastique is the intrusion of supernatural phenomena into an otherwise realist narrative. It evokes phenomena which are not only left unexplained but which are inexplicable from the reader's point of view. In this respect, the fantastique is somewhere between fantasy, where the supernatural is accepted and entirely reasonable in the imaginary world of a non-realist narrative, and magic realism, where apparently supernatural phenomena are explained and accepted as normal. Instead, characters in a work of fantastique are, just like the readers, unwilling to accept
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There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that this or that writer is said to create not other than while imbibing intoxicating drink or that his fantasies are the result of overexcited nerves and resulting fever. But who can fail to know that, while a state of psychical excitement caused by the one or other stimulant may indeed generate some lucky an
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― Die Serapions Brüder
― Die Serapions Brüder
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To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.
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― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
Inspiré au départ par le Printemps de l’Imaginaire Francophone (PIF) de la blogueuse Zahardonia …more
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LE GROUPE EST MAINTENANT SUR DISCORD !! Ne loupes pas la suite de l'aventure, ça se passe ici: h…more
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The group name could be Fantasy Aficionados from India.
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