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 ...more

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Dracula
The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'. ...more
Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

Andrzej Sapkowski
Où nos héros arrivent à Münsterberg lors d’un tournoi de chevalerie très européen. Pour Reynevan, ce contact avec l’Europe s’avère triste. Bah ! Douloureux même.
Andrzej Sapkowski, La Tour des Fous

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