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Robert Cormier is usually lauded as one of the most influential writers in American literature. His lucid style is particularly masterful to depict life reality by revealing contemporary social issues, human desire and violence. By portraying the character of ordinary people, Cormier exhibits what’s common to us as human. The study takes Cormier’s novel Fade as an example for interpretation. It is an unconventional and subversive step to approach children’s literature, which usually promotes positive values as mode, to proclaim how erotic writing in young adult fiction can be legitimate. Beginning from Plato’s Symposium, the study examines some classic works of Goethe, Defoe, Kierkegaard, Stendhal, Tugnev and, more recently, Marques to echo Cormier’s Fade which deal with romantic fantasy and somewhat incestuous love of adolescents. And how the hero sees and gazes his beloved elder using his inherited invisible capacity. The analysis is mostly relied on the researcher’s intensive reading of the text using perspectives of Stendhal, Freud, Simmel and others.
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