Un silence éloquent : narration et fantastique dans Fragoletta (1829) de Latouche et La Vénus d’Ille (1837) et Lokis (1869) de Mérimée

The paper analyses three works employing a similar narrative strategy which triggers tension between the explicable and inexplicable and an interpretative crisis that allows a fantastic reading of the fictional text. This strategy is related to the paradoxical status of the narrator, due to which the reader is faced with an incomplete elliptic account because of the former’s reluctance (or impossibility) to offer a definite interpretation of the events.