Noite fantástica: um percurso pelos estudos críticos e historiográficos sobre a obra Noite na taverna, de Álvares de Azevedo

Abstract

Many critics have emphasized that part fantastic of the Noite na taverna, by Álvares de Azevedo, work that is devoted, therefore, as a narrative of the fantastic although not fully correspond to the conception of the genre developed by Tzvetan Todorov, in Introduction to fantasy literature, basic allowance for studies of unusual fiction. "Fantastic," "supernatural," "horror," "gloomy," "dark," "macabre," "monstrous,""Dantesque", "Symbolist avant la lettre", "Gothic," "Satanist", "Byronic" are some of the terms used by critics in the main published studies about the work. It is a plurality of classifications not adequately characterize, and only demonstrate the difficulty of defining his gender. Reflecting on these aspects and building on the main critical studies on the work produced since its first edition, we consider the appropriateness of classifying as a member of the fantastic. Search is still, after careful reading of these studies, identify the moments of history and literary criticism in which Brazilian Night at the tavern was classified with the terms associated with a rare form of literature in Brazil's nationalist nineteenth century.