Open AccessTransitando nos limites: uma leitura de As Formigas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles
Author(s) -
Vera Maria Tietzman Silva
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
organon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2238-8915
pISSN - 0102-6267
DOI - 10.22456/2238-8915.30067
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , philosophy , humanities , computer science , library science
This article aims to discuss the characteristics of the fantasticpresent in the short-story “As formigas”, by Lygia Fagundes Telles. Emphasisis given to the building up of the atmosphere of hesitation which pervadesthe text. The theoretical basis for the analysis is provided by Todorov´stheory on the subject and some of Poe´s critical writings.