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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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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.
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― Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (New Accents)
― Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (New Accents)
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