DEVELOPMENT OF FANTASY GENRE IN 20TH CENTURY

Internal confusion, spiritual hopelessness, and anxious searches - these moods were characteristic of European culture in the period between the two world wars. Europe is anxiously awaiting a radical and significant change; it is looking for new ground on which to begin creative work. Escape from reality, the desire to return to the origins, the appeal to the mythical primeval time, comprehended in artistic form - all this turned out to be fundamental in the literature of the twentieth century and contributed to the emergence and development of new genres. In the middle of the 20th century, an unusual genre entered European prose, which later became known as the fantasy genre. The new genre quickly won success with readers, especially among young people, and this was the key to its heyday.