The Fantastic Tale in the 19th Century: A Game of Ambiguity and the Unspoken

Abstract

The real fantastic, a genre that is based on the enigmatic and the ambiguous, the profound mystery and the unexplained, attempts to perpetuate an unstable and fragile moment of the unexpected. In rejecting the human tendency towards any solution, the fantastic text presents itself as a network of very subtle signs that suggest something doubtful, disturbing, unnamed. The reader's impression that nothing is certain except uncertainty, is the advantage of the writer's art which uses of a certain number of processes of ambiguous techniques. The fantastic universe is thus governed by tacit but constant rules of tlae genre that contribute to creating an ambiance of ambiguity and the unspoken. The goal of this present work is to show two of these processes, to see the anastomosis of traditional fantastic motifs and the notion as famous as the controversy of hesitation.