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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/170350

Publication date:

7.11.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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