Fays of the Sea and Other Fantasies - Emile Zola - Books - Hollywood Comics - 9781649320544 - April 1, 2021
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Fays of the Sea and Other Fantasies

Emile Zola

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Fays of the Sea and Other Fantasies

The 20 stories collected in the present volume, all written during the 19th century, may not be real contes de fées, in the sense of the classic works of the Comtesse de Murat and Madame d'Aulnoy, but they do retain conscious echoes of the originals, and despite the interference in the genre's subsequent history, they maintain residues of the same spirit as well as fragments of imagery.




Some writers developed the more broadly comic aspect of the genre; others created "authentic" folkloristic materials in a semi-reverent manner, while maintaining a certain contemporary relevance. Finally, a few managed to take the reborn genre of contes de fées to new extreme of symbolist fantasies in the pages of newspapers.




Taken together, these stories are a belated testament to the enterprise and creativity of their distinguished predecessors of the 1690s.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 1, 2021
ISBN13 9781649320544
Publishers Hollywood Comics
Pages 264
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 15 mm   ·   290 g
Language English  

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