Perspectivas do fantástico em três contos de Hoffmann

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Sônia Dias de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25389
• topic: contos; fantástico; ambigüidade; Hoffmann; stories; fantastic; ambiguity; Hoffmann; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::TEORIA LITERARIA

This work aims at presenting some perspectives on the fantastic fiction, taking as its starting point the analysis of three short stories by the German writer Hoffmann, namely: The Sandman , Haimatocare and Automata . So as to built up the research on the fantastic fiction, we resorted to the theoretical perspectives developed by Furtado (1980) and Todorov (2004), favouring an array of narrative circumstances that foster the rising of hesitation and ambiguity. In such a way, we examined how strategies employed along the narrative flow build themselves and sustain ambiguity, which is responsible for the maintenance of hesitation, shown not only within the short stories but also in their relationship with the actual reader. Finally, we have made some considerations on the fantastic fiction, which can be understood as a possibility of interpreting human relations, rather contradictory and, exactly because of that, intrinsically similar to the contradictions that characterize the core of the fantastic literature. Thus, the course outlined in the short stories analysed in this work allows for an inquiry about the represented subjects world understanding, which demonstrates that ambiguity can be a way towards the comprehension of a reality so many times disconcerting, no matter how coherent it may seem.