Tag: Clark Ashton-Smith

The Geist, the Mana and the "magic naturalis" in Clark Ashton Smith's sword & sorcery

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Zothique is a non-place, albeit very concrete and real: Clark Ashton Smith imagines a world in which our current technology does not exist, and men live immersed in concrete elemental forces and invisible powers, but which act on what is earthly.

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โ€œBeyond the Realโ€, or of the literary dignity of the Fantastic

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Fantastic literature is still barely regarded by too many as paraliterature; "Beyond the Real", the new volume published by GOG edizioni helps us to affirm the opposite, analyzing the work of five of the most important authors of the genre from the end of the XNUMXth century to today: Lovecraft, Machen, Meyrink, Tolkien and Ashton Smith.ย 

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โ€œBeyond the Realโ€: for a Metaphysics of the Fantastic

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That of narration was born as a profoundly sacred practice: in narrating and narrating the world, man continually recreates and re-establishes it, since โ€œhe no longer lives in a purely physical universe, but in a symbolic universe. Language, myth, art and religion are part of this universe, they are the threads that make up the symbolic fabric, the tangled web of human experience ". The narration thus soon becomes the key to the innumerable doors of the Mystery, to a relationship between different yet authentically real dimensions.

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"Beyond the real"

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The dimension of the fantastic has always existed. In ancient times, through the use of myths, sagas, legends and cosmogonies, human beings shaped their beliefs and motivated their actions. Today the fantastic continues to permeate life and the collective unconscious of man, expressing itself with certainly different means but always capable of magnetizing our inner compasses. Lovecraft, Machen, Meyrink, Smith and Tolkien are five paradigmatic authors of this genre, finally presented in all their literary and philosophical dignity in the new essay published by GOG edizioni.

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