Science Fiction, Low Fantasy, High Fantasy
Science Fiction, Low Fantasy, High Fantasy

Summary/Abstract: This essay is based on a wider research of the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres and of the forms of the Fantasy genre, as they are reflected in the Romanian prose in the second half of the 20th century. The creators of autonomous fictional (invented) worlds within the Romanian literature have very rarely been the subject of systematic investigations so far. Their works, relatively numerous and aesthetically uneven, crammed under the umbrella of the so-called Fantastic or Baroque literature, were sometimes analyzed with improvised instruments, in a manner not always compatible with their true nature. These texts have almost always been annexed to the adjacent provinces of more or less related genres such as the Science Fiction, the Fantastic, the Surrealism, the Oneiric, the Political Allegory, the Utopia and the Dystopia, almost never getting a proper label to reflect their nature. I will insist in this essay on the relationships between two related genres, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and on some delimitations within the Fantasy genre, between High Fantasy and Low Fantasy.

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