7/6/2023 0 Comments American gods barnes and noble![]() The breadth of the collection is a true testament to a fabulist’s ambition to innovate and tear apart the common structures by way of finding something new. Hunt’s dark collection of stories takes fabulism into far more horror-laden territory. The following books are examples of fabulism at its best-unique, weird, and wonderful. ![]() The best way to define fabulism is by example. The genre truly defies by nature, it’s rebellious and individualistic it likes to stand tall and stand apart. So what if the story tends to be exceedingly weird? Maybe this isn’t enough of an explanation of what fabulism is. The defiance of clear definition is a clever choice to stand tall and let the story speak for itself. Readers are attracted to and therefore read a fabulist tale because they want to know what it is. The best fabulist narratives tend to blur the line between one or more of these traits. If one desires something more specific, fabulism can be traced out as a narrative that contains magical realism, slipstream, science fiction, horror, and/or surrealism as traits. Perhaps the most general of definitions would be, “where literature gets weird.” The term has its fairytale and fable roots, and yet it continues to cause confusion when someone uses it to describe a story. ![]() Fabulism, in essence, is the act of defying any genre constraint. It is fitting that fabulism tends to defy any direct definition. ![]()
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