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Book of Fantasyedited by Jorge Luis Borges,Sylvina Ocampo amp A, Bioy Casares
"So that,charmingly,is how the Book of Fantasy came to be, . .
Three friends talking. No plans,no definitions,no business,except the intention on "having a good book, "
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ovo je prava poslastica od zbirke koju sam gustirala dva meseca,
Zbirka obuhvata sve periode i sve oblike fantastike,od kratkih pričica dugih samo par redova,preko klasične pripovetke do odlomaka većih književnih dela u kojima se pojavljuju elementi fantastičnog.

Predgovor Ursule K. Le Guin o nastanku ove zbirke i o terminu "fantastika" u životu i literaturi,
priča raznih autora,od meni potpuno nepoznatih do imena kao što su: Borhes,Rej Bredburi,Luis Kerol, Džejms Džojs,Radjard Kipling, Franc Kafka, Tolstoj,Gi de Mopasan,Edgar Alan Po,Fransoa Rable,Volter, Oskar Vajld,Meri Šeli.
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Pošto je nemoguće ovo blago predstaviti u jednom postu izabrala sam tri možda manje poznate a izuzetne pripovetke da vam predstavim.

JOSEPHINE THE SINGER,OR THE MOUSE FOLK FRANZ KAFKA
Žozefina je mišica ubeđena da zna da peva, Iako svojim skičanjem samo privlači sve moguće neprijatelje mišjeg naroda,ipak niko nema srca da joj kaže da prestane.
Što dalje to traje to je više ona razmažena primadona,ubeđena da je samo njeno pevanje ono što ih održava.
. . Priča se čita kao basna,veoma satiričan prikaz nekih društvenih struktura,
MACARIOB. TRAVEN
Makario je siromašni seoski drvoseča koji

ima samo jednu željuda jednom pojede celu pečenu ćurku,sam, I jednom mu se želja ostvari,ode u šumu,daleko od žene i večito gladne dece,rasprostre pečenu ćurku i.
. . I šuma odjednom postane veoma prometno mesto, Nakon sleda posetilaca,dođe i Smrt, Sednu,pojedu,popričaju i sklope pogodbu,
THE MAN WHO LIKED DICKENSEVELYN WAUGH
Istraživač zabasa duboko u Amazoniju, Srećom,spase ga čova koji ima kuću tu usred džungle, Fini čikica,izleči mu rane,i prizna kako mnogo voli dela Čarlsa Dikensa ali ne ume da čita, U znak zahvalnosti,gost krene da čita,poglavlje po poglavlje,roman po roman, A onda pomisli da je vreme da se vrati nazad u Englesku Quizás sea esta la antología mas completa y abarcativa que me haya tocado leer.
La cobertura del género fantástico se me ocurre es casi absoluta, Sonpiezas distintas, desde microrrelatos a escenas de teatro, Seleccionada por Borges, Bioy y Ocampo que podría fallar en una empresa del estilo, Y nada, hasta los relatos no tan sorprendentes son ejemplo de las formas y la variedad que se pueden ejecutar, Es una fuente de inspiración y paso obligado para tener de referencia al momento de querer escribir nuevos cuentos, Prevalecen autores argentinos, ingleses y no faltan chinos, japoneses, árabes, así también como hay de distintas épocas desde siglos anteriores al calendario gregoriano a los días en que fue publicada.
Es un disparador para conocer autores y estilos, amé su lectura, "sitelink . it was a wet, ungenial summer, "

One night, in a villa by Lake Geneva inthree friends sat talking together, telling ghost stories, They were Mary Shelley, her husband Percy, and Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont was probably with them, and the strange young Dr, Polidori uncle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and they told awful tales, and Mary Shelley was frightened, 'We will each,' cried Byron, 'write a ghost story!' So Mary went away and thought about it, fruitlessly, until a few nights later she dreamed a nightmare in which a 'pale student' used strange arts and machineries to arouse from unlife the 'hideous phantasm of a man.
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For the literati, this wet, ungenial summer has become the stuff of legends, It was the night that Frankenstein's Monster had been created,

But then one night in Buenos Aires inthree friends sat talking together about dark fantastic literature, These were sitelinkJorge Luis Borges, sitelinkAdolfo Bioy Casares and his wife, sitelinkSilvina Ocampo, The product of this night is their own version of Phantasmagoriana, the book Byron and his companions drew inspiration from in writing their own stories.


This, sitelinkThe Book of Fantasy is a strong compilation of short horror stories, some familiar, some wildly exotic, there are interconnections between fantasists and one can sometimes pinpoint who made the selection, which is rather endearing.
sitelinkThomas Carlyle's An Actual Authentic Ghost couldn't have been selected by anyone but Borges, there is a clear whiff of it in his own Burning Man story.


sitelinkG. K. Chesterton's Tree of Pride makes the cut as well, have never read it before and was quite taken with it, rather a Scary story, reminiscent of Charles Godfrey Leland's poem sitelinkThe Peacock, Chesterton must have been aware of it.


sitelinkSantiago Dabove's Being Dust is a beautifully written story about a man who falls off his horse near a cemetery only to be gradually incorporated into the surrounding landscape.


" How sad! To be almost like the earth and still have hopes of moving, of
loving,
But it is not easy to be content, and we would rub out what is written in
the book of destiny if it hadn't already happened to us.

But all this is nothing but a sophism, Each time 'I die more like a man
and that death covers me in thorns and layers of chlorophyll, "


sitelinkArthur Machen, for whom Borges and I share a common enthusiasm, is also present with The Ceremony, a story about a young woman who takes up witchcraft willingly or not at a mysterious Celtic cross.
There has always been an esoteric context to Machen, his concepts relate more to the satanic than the celestial, he is fascinated with the occult, Paganism, a return to the standing stone of his native Welsh countryside.
I read it three times, it only got more scary with each read,

Other notable mentions:

sitelinkH, A. Murena's The Cat, disturbing,
sitelinkGiovanni Papini who translated Berkeley and Schopenhauer and his The Man that Belonged to Me,
sitelinkPetronius, writer of the Satyricon presents The Wolf, a story about a man who "pissed a ring around his clothes and turned into a wolf.
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sitelinkEmanuel Swedenborg's A Theologian In Death,
sitelinkVoltaire's Memnon
sitelinkJean Cocteau's Look of Death
the quadrinity of Ws: Waugh, Wharton, Wilde, Wollstonecraft.


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