Tag: Francis La Manno

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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"The Age of the Serpent": "The snake and the dragon: morphology of the ophidic symbolism"

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Era of the Serpent, second annual publication and seventh total of Italian Sword & Sorcery Book, is on sale in digital format for โ‚ฌ 3,30, with our 40-page essay (40.000+ characters) "The snake and the dragon: morphology of ophidic symbolism", as well as an unpublished story by Andrea Gualchierotti and an essay by Francesco La Manno

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