Come! our world is done:
For all the witchery of the world is fled,
And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.
(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.
Vladimir Odoyevskyfor he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.
Stefan GrabińskiTags: reality insanity fantasy fiction thought fantastic
Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!
Eça de QueirósTags: dreams literature fantasy idealism supernatural fantastic
We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.
Arthur MachenTags: fantasy strange fantastic
Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.
Michael RichardsonTags: fantasy universe surrealism fantastic
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.
Michael RichardsonTags: reality fantasy surrealism realism fantastic fantastique
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
André BretonTags: fantasy surrealism fantastic fantastique
The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points to the gaps and inadequacies of realism, but does not question the legitimacy of its claims to represent reality. The concept of “suspension of disbelief', that beloved criterion of positivist criticism supposedly serving to establish the legitimacy of the fantastic, confirms this hegemony.
Michael RichardsonTags: fantasy realism fantastic fantastique
The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.
Rosemary JacksonTags: reality fantasy fantastic fantastique
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