About the Nature and the Functions of the Fantastic in Emil Koralov’s Novel The Man Who Could See Everything Cover Image

За природата и функциите на фантастичното в романа „Човекът, който вижда всичко“ от Емил Коралов
About the Nature and the Functions of the Fantastic in Emil Koralov’s Novel The Man Who Could See Everything

Author(s): Tanya Stoyanova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Short Story, Bulgarian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: science fiction; realism; children`s literature; adventure; fairy tale; Utopia
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on Emil Koralov’s novel The Man Who Could See Everything, published in 1946. The paper stresses fantastic element in the novel; the mechanisms that realize it; the relations between fantastic and real. Especially, it focuses on the adventure, the link between the novel and the fairy tale, science, and utopia bearing in mind that the novel was written for a public of children.

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