Original scientific paper
Fantastic Aspects In Marcel Thiry's Novel Echec du temps
Stéphane Carlier
; lecteur WBI à l'Université de Wuhan
Abstract
This article establishes how the novel Echec au Temps, often considered within the corpus of Belgian fantastic works, has elements that link it with other genres, such as science fiction. The discovery of several contradictions in the narrative allows us to consider it as indicative of a crisis of representation of reality in the character-narrator rather than an objective testimony. Gustave Dieujeu under the symbolic influence of the father and facing an entrepreneurial inevitable ruin, takes refuge in a neoreality enabling it to confront the return of the repressed feminine pole. This is where the novel ranks well below the fantastic, through the interpretation of fantasy as "fusion of opposites" (Eric Lysøe).
Keywords
paraliterature; fantastic; madness; psychoanalysis; denial of reality
Hrčak ID:
170350
URI
Publication date:
7.11.2016.
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