Do efeito fantástico na ficção contemporânea

Abstract

Over the centuries the fantastic has developed, however, we still find difficulties in defining the characteristics that make it up. It is true that, today, the fantastic element appears in different ways, with the peaceful coexistence of natural and supernatural. Here, the unusual dissolves in the routine and banality of common situations, generating the fantastic effect, an approach of this dissertation. No more scares or shocks in front of a supernatural event, unlike the so-called classic fantastic, which provides the hesitation as a principal component. In this tangle of supernatural events, a figure stands out, the character. Its main function is a tool to communicate and confirm to the reader the occurrence of supernatural events. In the case of the contemporary fantastic it ends up helping the naturalization of the supernatural events, because it depicts the passivity and acceptance of such events. Also through it is possible to identify reactions to these events: uncertainty, doubt, suffocation, anguish and fear. Our main goal with this thesis is to tailor theory and text, looking for the fantastic effect, by analyzing the reaction of the characters in contemporary writers, more specifically in stories. We will use for this exemplification stories of Amilcar Bettega Barbosa (Leave the room as is and The sides of the circle), Jorge Luis Borges (Fictions and The Book of Sand) and Murilo Rubiao (Stories gathered). To address this challenge, we seek to bring issues to enrich the discussion of contemporary fantastic, demonstrating that also its stay in the current literary scene. With this, we hope to contribute to propagate the discussions about the fantastic, leading, perhaps, to a new critical stance about these texts