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E caratteristico infatti della letteratura fiabesca femminile uno spazio del<br />

soprannaturale accettato nelle sue leggi, magico e metamorfico, mal<br />

difJerenziato tuttavia da uno spazio riconoscibile - in base ai modelli vigenti ­<br />

come fantastico, dove vigono come di norma l'incertezza e la disponibilita a<br />

suggestioni di ordine psichico e sensoriale, il turbamento e l'inquietudine<br />

derivati essenzialmente dall'ambiguita del reale. 93<br />

Farnetti's definition seems not to account for the doubt that the reader must<br />

experience as a result of the many links between the 'ambiguita del reale' and the<br />

world ofthe text. Like the dreamer the reader is forced by the nature ofthe text to take<br />

continual recourse to hislher own experience in order to assess the world ofthe text.94<br />

Slhe finds however that the rules of that world are no longer stable as a result of the<br />

links between the two. The female fantastic can forge these links through the use of<br />

transtextuality, which constantly prevents the reader from losing him/herself in the<br />

text.<br />

Awaking from a dream is often associated with a new form of vision, not in<br />

the visionary sense ofseeing what is not there but in the sense of seeing the old space<br />

anew, infused with the dream space. If fantastic literature is a 'dream with open eyes'<br />

can it too lead to new vision? The conclusion about permanent hesitation reached<br />

earlier would imply a negative. However I believe that in the light of this close<br />

connection between dreams and the fantastic'" we can agree with Goggi when he<br />

concludes that:<br />

la stessa sospensione sembra invitare e spingere al suo superamento:... Due sono<br />

le vie d'uscita: 0 ripristinando il funzionamento del meccanismo della<br />

veridizione e quindi riacquistando, attraverso 10 svelamento della situazione, la<br />

pertinenza dell'opposizione che I'assurdo sembrava neutralizzare (assurdo<br />

degradato a enigma), oppure metarealizzando un punto di vista superiore che<br />

inglobi e superi la contraddizione stessa (assurdo risolto in metanaturale)."<br />

93'Irruzioni del semiotico', p.225<br />

94 Clear links emerge here between the fantastic which I am outlining and the close genre of magical<br />

realism. However Rawdon Wilson makes the point that the latter is a 'hybrid space' in which, 'plural<br />

worlds, like distinct kinds of writing, like parabolic trajectories, approach each other, but do not<br />

merge', 'Metamorphoses of Fictional Space' in Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community, pp. 209<br />

- 233 (p.228). I argue here that the fantastic does merge worlds to create a new one, even if the original<br />

elements are still perceptible, with a visionary quality which distances it from what I see as the more<br />

concretely political aims of magical realism. The differences between the two genres can seem slight,<br />

but I would also foreground the principle ofdoubt asunique to the fantastic.<br />

9S Also observed by Goggi himself when he writes that 'L'esperienza onirica, l'esperienza della droga,<br />

forme e modi di esplorazione dell'immaginario possono assumere, pur essendo salvaguardata<br />

l'opposizione essere/apparire (e quindi: la distinzione soggettivo/oggettivo, dentro/fuori), un tale peso e<br />

spessore di verita da spingere a uno sbilanciamento assiologico del paradigma, in conseguenza del<br />

quale iI sogno, ecc. diventa il positivo, iI reale iI negativo. In tale sbilanciamento e da ravvisare una<br />

forma di rottura e di lacerazione del paradigma distinta rna in qualche modo complementare di quella<br />

connessa alia crisi conoscitiva che porta alia scoperta dell'assurdo.' (in Ceserani and others (eds) p.90)<br />

96 G.Goggi, ibid., p.90.<br />

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