Fiction and the Fantastic
by London Review of Books
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<p>Marina Warner, Anna Della Subin, Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis traverse the great parallel tradition of the literature of astonishment and wonder, dread and hope, from the <em>1001 Nights</em> to Ursula K. Le Guin.</p><p>Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include <em>Stranger Magic</em>, <em>Forms of Enchantment </em>and <em>Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale</em>. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the <em>LRB</em>.</p><p>Texts include:</p><p><em>The Thousand and One Nights</em> </p><p>Jonathan Swift, <em>Gulliver’s Travels</em></p><p><em>The Travels of Marco Polo</em></p><p>Italo Calvino, <em>Invisible Cities</em></p><p>Lewis Carroll, <em>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</em> and <em>Through the Looking-Glass</em></p><p>The stories of Franz Kafka</p><p>James Hogg, <em>The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself</em></p><p>Mikhail Bulgakov, <em>The Mast