O modo fantástico em Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Abstract

This paper discusses how the concepts of Fantastic develop the prose work of the Portuguese modernist writer Mário de Sá-Carneiro, comparing two distinctive theoretical perspectives on the topic. One such possibility involves realizing Fantastic as a literary genre - a historical perspective - assuming the more restricted and restrictive; another, as a discursive mode - non-historical perspective - has a more comprehensive and welcoming. From these different assumptions, the objective of studying a set of four short stories from the author ("Loucura" and "Incesto" from the book Princípio and "A grande sombra" and "A estranha morte do Professor Antenna" from Céu em fogo, determine how Sá-Carneiro, using resource strategies of narrative construction of the Fantastic, and poet, becomes an icon of Portuguese prose becomes an icon of Portuguese prose at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth, establishing a benchmark for the Fantastic Literature in Portugal. To conduct this study, it was used theoretical concepts of Tzvetan Todorov, Filipe Furtado, Irène Bessière and tangentially, other assorted scholars from the Fantastic contemporaneity