The fantastic language in “Coisas” – the rebellion needed
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https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v10i20.29953Keywords:
Fantastic, Saramago, Re-signification of reality.Abstract
From the conception that the use of the fantastic constitutes a strategy of dialectical questions of reality to reflect, this work discusses the architecture of the fantastic language and its significant effects on the construction of the short story “Coisas” (Things), by José Saramago. The analysis of aesthetic artifices in the short story, such as the unusual and the absurd, aims to show the presence of methods of violence and persecution characteristic of the Salazarist dictatorship materialized in the stingy and rude oppression of the capitalist society that transforms everything into marketable objects. Finally, Saramago’s fantastic resource offers an interesting possibility of reading from the relationship between the meaningful tension of the sign, surfaced by the fantastic resource and the interlace occupied by objects and people in the Portuguese society post ‘Estado Novo’, working as a critical rupture of re-signification of reality with the intention to create another more lyrical and human.
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