Resumen

KURZ, Andreas. Lo fantástico más allá de la vacilación: la representación mimética del miedo en dos cuentos de Bioy Casares y Cortázar. Valenciana [online]. 2014, vol.7, n.14, pp.89-116. ISSN 2007-2538.

This article explains some concepts and definitions of fantastic literature and tries to separate them from 'realismo mágico' and 'lo real maravilloso'. Franz Roh's book, H. P. Lovecraft's history of fantastic literature and Freud's concept of the 'unheimlich' are used as key texts to reach this aim. Our principal hypothesis states the mimetic character and the representation of fear as the main ingredients of fantastic literature, opposing the idea of vacillation exposed by Todorov. We try to test our hypothesis in the analysis of two canonical short stories by Bioy Casares and Cortázar.

Palabras llave : fantastic literature; realismo mágico; real maravilloso; Bioy Casares; Cortázar.