Nowadays, one does not very often read the fantastic novels by Marcel Brion. His works have not generally been studied by French university professors, nor even taken into account by the theorists of the fantastic genre, which ranks his works in a situation of marginality. This is emphasized by Liliane Brion-Guerry's words qualifying the "specific qualities" of Brion's fantastic genre. What are the characteristics of this particular genre? This memoir aims at studying the way Brion - in his novels written between 1929 and 1984 - questions reality, sets the scene in installing "another side", proposes the reader to indulge in unusual conceptions and to undertake a quest for both the world and mankind's hidden dimensions. As the writers considering that "the metaphysical dimension is included in the experience of the fantastic genre", Marcel Brion makes his characters actthrough different metamorphoses as weil as an initiatory journey, and makes them evolve in a universe in which the mythology of inner and outer labyrinths prevails. In Brion's novels the aesthetics is fabulously highlighted and therefore a particular vision is present through the whole work. Thus the reader is immersed in a world which borders are that of the baroque genre and that of romanticism, these two genres not being taken in their historical dimension but revealing the state of human consciousness.
