Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 38: January, 1924
In this essay, our writer sketches the progress of the Fantastic through the ages. According to his point of view, it is the fantastic element which has been at all times the highest inspiration of the poet. Nodier fully realizes the difficulty of restoring this element in the literature of a period which has long ago abandoned its belief in the Supernatural. As a necessary condition for the resurrection of the Fantastic in the literature of his sceptical contemporaries, he therefore demands a suspension of disbelief on the part of both the writer and the reader. In order to obtain the reader's momen tary suspension of incredulity, the writer must tell his story in such a way as not to arouse any doubt as to his own belief in its truth.
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