Cortázar: o estranhamento em Cena

Authors

  • Cleusa Rios Passos Universidades de São Paulo.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i20p115-125

Keywords:

strangeness (the Freudian uncanny) in the reader. Julio Cortázar, Horacio Quiroga, das Unheimliche (the uncanny), “theatrum mundi”.

Abstract

This essay aims at the dialogue between some short stories by Julio Cortázar and “El Espectro” by Horacio Quiroga taking into consideration the topos of the theatrum mundi in which men represent a role in the vast panorama of the universe. Of long tradition in literature, this metaphor emerges in both writers thanks to the role reversal between characters or between characters and narrators, arousing a disturbing sensation of

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Author Biography

  • Cleusa Rios Passos, Universidades de São Paulo.
    Docete no Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada.

Published

2015-06-18

Issue

Section

Dossiê

How to Cite

Passos, C. R. (2015). Cortázar: o estranhamento em Cena. Literatura E Sociedade, 20(20), 115-125. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i20p115-125