Book, Fantastic Tales of the 19th century[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. The Fantastic Tales of the 19th Century were selected by writer Italo Calvino for an Italian television series in 1983. Here are the various faces of the supernatural: they are stories of ghosts and horror, of the dreamlike, the macabre, the exotic and the mysterious. The stories were written by 26 authors from the 19th century, from the most diverse literary traditions: from Hoffmann and Walter Scott to Kipling and HG Wells, including Gogol, Poe and Andersen, among others, as well as authors considered famous "realists", such as Balzac, Dickens, Maupassant and Henry James. Everyone is looking for, behind the everyday appearance of facts, an enchanted or infernal world that, more than scaring the reader, leaves him perplexed: is it true or false, a dream or a hallucination? As Calvino says in the book's introduction, "the supernatural element that occupies the center of these plots always appears loaded with meaning, like the irruption of the unconscious, the repressed, the forgotten, what has distanced itself from our rational attention. Therein lies the modernity of fantastic and the reason for the return of its prestige in our time". In addition to this introduction, Calvino makes a brief comment at the beginning of the stories, suggesting interpretations and explaining the importance of each of them in the context of fantasy literature. Authors brought together in Fantastic Tales of the 19th Century: Jan Potocki - Joseph von Eichendorff - ETA Hoffmann - Walter Scott - Honoré de Balzac - Philarète Chasles - Gérard de Nerval - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Nikolai V. Gogol - Théophile Gautier - Prosper Mérimée - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Edgar Allan Poe - Hans Christian Andersen - Charles Dickens - Ivan S. Turgenev - Nikolai S. Leskov - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - Guy de Maupassant - Vernon Lee - Ambrose Bierce - Jean Lorrain - Robert Louis Stevenson - Henry James - Rudyard Kipling - Herbert G. Wells.