Fantástico e imaginário em contos de Inglês de Sousa

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to promote a study about the fantastic and the imaginary inserted into narratives that compose the book Contos Amazônicos, first published in 1893 and republished in 2005 by the Universidad Federal do Para. In this work, the author obi dense, Herculean Marcos Ingles de Souza values the Amazonian mythology, to highlight legends of big snake, of actual bird, of taka, of boot and fear of the people who live in regions bordering the Amazon rainforest, scenery of fantastical occurrences. The dissertation aims at a more detailed analysis about the narrative Akaka, for be the one that gathers an important number of fantastic features. To develop this work, we will use as the theoretical support, especially the Bulgarian Tzvetan Todorov, that comprises the fantastic as a genre that comes from factors that do not occur only through natural laws, what provides doubts about these factors, As a result this seeks to understand in neighboring genres which are weird and/or wonderful. Will also be used the study proposed by the Frenchwoman Irène Bessière, who understands the fantastic report, supported in social and cultural standards to promote the understanding of imbrication of the two fields: The natural and supernatural. The work is divided into four chapters: the first brings some information about the life of English de Sousa, a short panorama of Realism / Naturalism and the structuring of the canon. The second shows the conceptual view of fantastic genre as long as the imaginary and the indices of estrangements inserted in the literary text. The third puts in evidence the works of Sousa as an example of literature marked by fantastic and the imaginary, and a web narrative, whose center is the tale "Acauã” besides a comparison between the narrative "Acauã" of Sousa and Nery. And the fourth chapter consists of an analysis of the proposal fantastic tale "Acauã", the reflections of Felipe Furtado.