Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.” — Rosemary Jackson Copy Share Image
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality.… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to… — Lars Gustafsson Copy Share Image
“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not… — Fitz James O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?' 'I should think so,' said… — Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
