THE STREETS OF THE FANTASTIC

Fictional literature has always been a bright way out of a mundane and often repetitive everyday life. Whether our minds turn to Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth or Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher or Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, the attraction remains just as great. George Paul's book. Papadakis The roads of the fantastic is a unique project of its kind, given its thematic breadth on the subject of the fantastic. It includes essays and theoretical texts by important people in the field, academics and writers. Among the positive aspects of the project is its uniqueness among Greek publishing journals in terms of the theoretical approach to the subject. Indeed, although in recent years the Greek bibliography is full of titles of works of fictional literature, mostly translated, it lacked a theoretical and essay approach to the subject. With this book, an important beginning seems to be finally being made. Horror literature, science fiction, heroic fantasy, the philosophical dimension of the term "fantasy", the fantastic in Greek cinema and television, Ancient Greek roots and the Greek fantastic, Homer, children's fantastic literature, and references smaller or larger in the giants Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Etha Hoffman, HF Lovecraft make it a reference book. The short stories at the end of the book come to frame and complete a taste of all kinds of fantasy and give the book a more accessible note. The photos that accompany the project are quite interesting and give it a more gothic and "mysterious" note, completing it in every way. The Ways of the Imaginary is both a reference book and a book of knowledge.