Paura del possibile e ambivalenza. I racconti fantastici di Fenoglio

This article analyses the four “fantastic short stories” written by Fenoglio between 1958 and 1960 and suggests that these point at an exhaustion of Modernist poetics, highlighted by the preference given to figures of scission and self-deception at a thematic level, by which all the characters choose to not look at the reality (par- ticularly evident in the love triangle of Laszlo Melas), and to a mixture of literary models recycled as codes more than styles. Thus, these short stories signal that Fenoglio hints at Modernist poetics while exploring new narrative ways.