Fantastik Edebiyata Genel Bir Bakış - Stefano Bennı ve Stranalandıa

Abstract

Fantasy literature, a product of imagination, extends over ancient times in which divine beings are portrayed along with fantastic figures. Tales, on the other hand, are a narration form furnished with fantastic elements. When it comes to the effects of fantastic on Italian literature, it is necessary to set out with the figures in the ornaments of the Roman period monuments. Dante and Boccaccio, two most well-known writers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, also resorted to fantastic elements from time to time. In the Renaissance period, some artists and writers enriched their work with fantastic elements. In the Romantic period, the fantasy genre was first seen in German, English and French literature. In addition, a literary genre called Gothic emerged in England. In Italy, however, this type of narration was avoided since literature of this period undertook a patriotic duty inasmuch as Leopardi, Manzoni and Croce stated that the fantasy genre was against the Italian spirit. However, many writers made use of fantastic and surrealist elements of ironic quality. In the period of Fascism, these elements were frequently used because they were accepted as a means to distance people from the cruelty of the period’s realities. As for today, fantastic elements are very common and it reaches its peak with Benni.

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