El llindar neofantàstic en l’obra narrativa de Joan Barceló i Cullerés

Abstract

The fantastic is one of the elements in the narrative poetics of Joan Barceló, a seminal Catalan writer of the 70s. The purpose of this article is to analyse the fantastic from a theoretical perspective, including its specific uses in Barceló’s stories and novels, how it works and why. Thus, the paper draws on the con-cept of the neofantastic to reveal a literary space of aesthetic and ideological transgression that moves among three thresholds: the magical or fairy, the unusual and the absurd or nonsense.

Keywords

• joan barcelo
• catalan fantastic literature
• the neofantastic
• catalan narrative of the 70's
• catalan children's books
• catalan young adult literature