Roger CailloisThe fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
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The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality.
Source: Au Coeur Du Fantastique
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More Quotes By Roger Caillois
- Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.
- The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
- It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power.