The humor, the fantastic, the fall of masks and social criticism in "Incidente em Antares", by Erico Verissimo
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21814/2i.6148Keywords:
humor, fantastic, social criticism, Incidente en AntaresAbstract
The objective of this investigation was to discuss how in Incidente em Antares (2013), by Erico Verissimo, the humor moves in a fantastic, ambivalent, apocalyptic atmosphere, to transgress the limits of the possible and the impossible, leading us to reflection and criticism of the political and social upheavals, in a country on the eve of a dictatorship. We analyze how the mysteries of the fantastic invade not only the daily lives of the living, but also of the dead, who cannot accept the laceration of the normal course of the post-mortem process and want the reinstatement of normality. To construct the analyses, this work is anchored in the theoretical corpus based on Furtado (1980), Reisz (2001), Propp (1992), Bergson (1983), Campra (2008), Eagleton (2020), Roas (2022) and Boccuti (2018). We observe that, as the bodies rot, the hypocrisy and crimes of some authorities are exposed.
Downloads
References
Bakhtin, M. (2010). Questões de literatura e estética: A teoria do romance (A. Bernadini et al., Trans.). HUCITEC.
Ben Slama, M. (2017). Del texto literario a la imagen cinematográfica: Humor y terror en La torre de los siete jorobados. Dirāsāt Hispánicas, 4, 245–267. https://doi.org/10.71564/dh.vi4.51
dirasathispanicas.org
Bergson, H. (1983). O riso: Ensaio sobre a significação do cômico (N. C. Caixeiro, Trans.). Zahar.
Boccuti, A. (2018). Introducción. Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 6(1), 9–18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/brumal.542
Brondani, J. A. (2017). Bufão: máscara e conexões rituais. Conceição/Conception, 6(1), 15–34. https://doi.org/10.20396/conce.v6i1.8648652. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20396/conce.v6i1.8648652
Campra, R. (2008). Territorios de la ficción: Lo fantástico. Editorial Renacimiento.
Eagleton, T. (2020). Humor: O papel fundamental do riso na cultura (A. Bonrruquer, Trans.). Record.
Furtado, F. (1980). A construção do fantástico na narrativa. Livros Horizonte.
Hutcheon, L. (1981). Ironía, sátira, parodia: Una aproximación pragmática a la ironía (P. Hernández Cobos, Trans.). Poétique, 45, 173–193. [Consultado em teoriayanalisisliterariounounlpam.blogspot.com]
Propp, V. (1992). Comicidade e riso. Ática.
Reisz, S. (2001). Las ficciones fantásticas y sus relaciones con otros tipos ficcionales. In J. Alazraki et al. (Eds.), Teorías de lo fantástico (pp. 193–221). Arco Libros.
Roas, D. (2022). “Entre la risa y la inquietud: La combinación de lo fantástico y el humor como vía de subversión de lo real”. En D. Roas (Ed.), Fantástico y humor en la ficción fantástica contemporánea (pp. 13–39). Visor Libros.
Verissimo, E. (2013). Incidente em Antares (15.ª ed.). Companhia das Letras.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Iaranda Jurema Ferreira Barbosa
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
.jpg)
