PHANTASIA AND SPECIALISED LANGUAGE IN PASCAL MERCIER’S 'NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON'
PHANTASIA AND SPECIALISED LANGUAGE IN PASCAL MERCIER’S 'NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON'

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between phantasia and specialised language in Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon, focusing on the ways in which medical terminology, philosophical discourse, and reading as interpretation stimulate imaginative perception. Through Raimund Gregorius’s encounter with the writings of the Portuguese physician Amadeu de Prado, Mercier constructs a narrative in which precise language does not restrict meaning, but opens new perceptual, emotional, and existential horizons. The analysis draws on classical and phenomenological understandings of phantasia in order to show how conceptual thought and imagination converge in the interpretative act.

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