“If reality is constructed verbally, through a text, Scottish texts are often seen as hybrids, a mixing and matching of different traditions and genres, fact and fiction, Gothic fantasy and social history, romance and realism. “Book three” and followed by a “Prologue”. Realism and fantasyĬoexist in this novel, structured in a way to confuse the reader, starting with Lanark by Alasdair Gray seems to enter in this series ofįantasy book with a realistic approach of the writer. Protagonist, a man dressed in black and a beetle which appears in her apartment Kafka’s novel, the protagonist Gregor Samsa wakes up being a monstrousĬreature, while in Martín Gaite’s short story is all built around the female Hesitation of the reader can be found in the spanish novel El cuarto de atrás by Carmen Martín Gaite, reminding the reader The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. One example of this incredulity coming from the Of a character and the third condition is that the reading of the text should Of the reader is the first condition of fantastic the second is the hesitation His idea, a novel is fantastic whenever it creates an hesitation of charactersĪnd, above all, readers when it raises questions about reality. The first time by the structuralist critic Tzvetan Todorov in his book Theįantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). “fantastic” in a more realistic application to the literature was presented for Supernatural forces, unreal worlds, invented creatures. In general, when we think about the genre of fantasy we imagine Read up on the genre of fantasy and comment on specific You can also read an essay about To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, NW by Zadie Smith, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen and A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.

The following article is a short essay and review realised as part of a take-home exam for Postromantic Materialism course held at the University of Leuven in 2014-2015.