Word: fantasist
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...where the continent falls into the Pacific as it follows the sun, the coast has always seemed an image of Eden, a garden of earthly delights. "There is an island called California, on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Earthly Paradise," wrote a 16th century Spanish fantasist in a novel that gave the Golden State its name. California and other stretches of the Pacific shore would become the fated and fateful destinations of adventurous journeys westward by European settlers, cowboys, miners, Forty- Niners and dreamers. There the travelers would pass, or so they hoped, from their...
...Licht, is both a summary of existing Goya scholarship and a breaking of much new ground. Its theme is explicit: to show Goya's role in the Spanish Enlightenment, to present him as a man immersed in the values of liberal thought, to amend his reputation as a solitary fantasist who did sardonic court portraits on the side...
...space. Yet those who have read any of Polish Author Stanislaw Lem's numerous books know that even the most timeworn subject can be the occasion for fresh surprises. Lem's international reputation rests on two qualities rarely found together in one mortal: he is both a superb literary fantasist, a la Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, and a knowledgeable philosopher of the means and meanings of technology. Lem, 65, not only builds castles in the air, he also provides meticulous blueprints and rationales for their construction...
...tent at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, another event began: the sale of the late Duchess of Windsor's jewelry, organized by Christie's rival auction house Sotheby's. Here was a nominal contrast at least, since though everyone admires Van Gogh, none but a snob or a fantasist (not that we are short of either) could feel much nostalgia for Wallis Simpson and her husband, who abdicated the throne of England in 1936 and was obliged to spend the war years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi sympathies. Nevertheless, this pair...
...responsible for a powerfully evocative volume that gives dimension to the questions haunting every child deprived of his genealogy. It is part confession, part portrait of Britain, with its intimidating social strata, its cloaked poverty and strained respectability. And it is incontrovertible proof that Dickens, the great middle-class fantasist, the maker of grotesques and waifs and seekers, was a teller of more enduring truths than even he suspected...