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FANTASY [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Literature
DEF

A ... fictional work ... describing an imagined world in which magical powers and other impossibilities are accepted.

OBS

Fantasy deals with things that are not and cannot be. Science fiction deals with things that can be, that some day may be.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Littérature
DEF

Genre situé à la croisée du merveilleux et du fantastique, qui prend ses sources dans l’histoire, les mythes, les contes et la science-fiction.

OBS

La fantasie est un genre d'origine anglo-saxonne.

OBS

fantasie : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 23 décembre 2007.

Spanish

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