


There is also a system to the fantastic that he explores that uses three properties. The fantastic also explores three conditions reader’s hesitation, hesitation may be felt by another character, and the reader must have a certain mindset when reading the text. Third, the reader must adopt a certain attitude with regard to the text: he will reject allegorical as well as "poetic" interpretations. Second, this hesitation may also be experienced by a character thus the reader's role is so to speak entrusted to a character, and at the same time the hesitation is represented, it becomes one of the themes of the work-in the case of naive reading, the actual reader identifies himself with the character. First, the text must oblige the reader to consider the world of the characters as a world of living persons and to hesitate between a natural or supernatural explanation of the events described. The fantastic requires the fulfillment of three conditions. Todorov breaks down the fantastic into a manner of systems, filled with conditions and properties that make it easier to understand. The fantastic is present in works where the reader experiences hesitation about whether a work presents what Todorov calls "the uncanny", wherein superficially supernatural phenomena turn out to have a rational explanation (such as in the Gothic works of Ann Radcliffe) or "the marvelous", where the supernatural is confirmed by the story.

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