Resumen de From the "A-chrony" to a "Synchrony" and Vice Versa: The Proximity of the Beyond or Fantastic Literature and the Question of Time – The Invención de Morel Example

Rosalie Sinopoulou

• Fantastic literature is a genre that has always pushed imagination to its extremes, mainly because it sets off to re-present something that is not present. Given the «limits» of human perception, though, is it possible to establish a narrative outside language or time? How does time, a concept that has a rather conventional status, function in the margins of reality? From Cazotte to James many attempts have been made in order to distort the normal in the most believable way possible. In that sense attempts have been made to distort time –a prominent means of perceiving normality– as well. Bioy-Casares’ La Invención de Morel is a prominent example of that kind of effort. Repetition, a concept prominent in that novel, expresses and re-presents (?) a new reality that seems to negate our world for the sake of another, an ideal universe where today is always scarified for the sake of eternity. Like a writer, the hero gives up the present in order to achieve, through the eternal repetition, the ultimate representation: a representation in its purest form, i.e. one founded on a void, just like the fantastic itself.