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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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Le seul souvenir qui me reste depuis des siècles que je vis dans la pierre, est le doux contact des larmes sur un visage d'homme
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― La Montagne morte de la vie
― La Montagne morte de la vie
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From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or
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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
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.
All genres of fantasy including but not …more
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Inspiré au départ par le Printemps de l’Imaginaire Francophone (PIF) de la blogueuse Zahardonia …more
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