The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. ("On the Fantastic in Literature") .Lars Gustafsson
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The fantastic is an imaginative place where concrete things do not make sense. The fantastic is a place where you cannot understand how something works because the world is not logical. When people read stories about this or that, it can make them wonder or even question what they read. Fantasy novels are full of magic and the supernatural.
They are quite different from reality, which is based on science and logic. So when people start to read fantasy novels, it can make them wonder what does happen in reality.
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