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The Fantastic is a literary genre of writing or art which intrudes fantasy elements into a story (or picture) that is basically representational or real-feeling. It is this foundation (and intrusion) upon a sense of the real world that differentiates the Fantastic genre from Fantasy or the Surreal . The most typical type of Fantastic story, one used many times, brings the Devil to a contemporary setting. '' The Master And Margarita '', by Bulgakov is a celebrated example of this. As a literary technique, many writers have used the Fantastic to comment on social realities in an entertaining and indirect manner. It is also a strategy to defeat Censorship . There isn't a clear distinction between the Fantastic and Magical Realism , but the latter seems generally to include a higher proportion of non-real elements. The Fantastic is sometimes known as the Grotesque , possibly because in the 19th century its practitioners wrote stories set in poverty, examined social problems, or featured strange personalities. Examples of writers of Fantastic literature include E.T.A. Hoffmann , Nikolai Gogol , Oscar Wilde , Mikhail Bulgakov , Abram Tertz , and Bernard Malamud . An example of a painter of the Fantastic is Marc Chagall , where one finds for example everyday elements of Shtetl life defying a sense of gravity. In Elizabethan slang, a Fantastic was a rake; an "effeminate fool" or "improvident young gallant". The character Lucio in Shakespeare 's '' Measure For Measure '' is described in the Dramatis Personae as a Fantastic. SEE ALSO |