UNDER THE SIGN OF MAGIC – FANTASTIC SPACE IN VASILE VOICULESCU’S AND ION AGÂRBICEANU’S PROSE
UNDER THE SIGN OF MAGIC – FANTASTIC SPACE IN VASILE VOICULESCU’S AND ION AGÂRBICEANU’S PROSE

Summary/Abstract: The paper tries to describe the coordinates of fantastic space in short stories by two Romanian writers from the last century, Vasile Voiculescu and Ion Agârbiceanu. In the shortstories that we have analised, the supernatural appears, quite frequently, because of the way characters "see" the space in which they live. Thus, the archaic village, the forest, the lake, the goldmine become elements of a strange geography, which is populated by unusual occurrences and by the appearance of magical beings, of folklore origin, in which humans strongly believe.

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