Lo fantástico en tensión con lo maravilloso en la obra romántica de Órest Sómov y Nikolái Gógol

This paper’s objective is to analyze tension in the first stories of Russian romanticism, represented by the work of Órest Somov and the Gogol of the Ukrainian period, between the marvelous and the fantastic, still in the making. It starts from the assumption that, in this nascent prose, folkloric and religious motifs play a fundamental role and that the limits between the natural and supernatural worlds are still blurred; thus there is no frank confrontation, characteristic of the system of the fantastic.