Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0679415262 ISBN 13: 9780679415268

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1997

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Gathers twenty-six nineteenth century fantasy stories by American and European authors, including Scott, Hawthorne, Gogol, Stevenson, Poe, James, and Turgenev

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Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century (and editor of the best-selling Italian Folktales), Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors. Master storyteller himself, Calvino has contributed an informative introduction to the collection, and an engaging précis to each story.

As Calvino writes in Fantastic Tales, which traces the genre from its roots in German Romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James: "The fantastic tale is one of the most characteristic products of nineteenth-century narrative. For us, it is also one of the most significant. . . . As it relates to our sensibility today, the supernatural element at the heart of these stories always appears freighted with meaning, like the revolt of the unconscious, the repressed, the forgotten. . . . In this we see the modern dimension of the fantastic, the

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679415262
• ISBN 13: 9780679415268
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 588
• Herausgeber: Calvino Italo