Quotes Tagged With :fantastique

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it....

As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief....

The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent....

He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable,....

The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we....

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend....

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been....

Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?''I....

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the....

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent....