Love, humor and horror in the fiction of Lygia Fagundes Telles

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2316-4018562

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Lygia Fagundes Telles, Fantastic literature, Political engagement

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This article intends to analyze the narrative work of Lygia Fagundes Telles through the use of the fantastic as a device present in most of her literary production. Without choosing between political engagement (especially during and after the period of military dictatorship) and the investigation of the unconscious, Fagundes Telles retains both as constitutive elements of her work. This duality is studied in the story “Seminário dos ratos”, where irony is combined with ideological critique, identifying within the story one of the main characteristics of her literature.

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2019-02-02

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Finazzi-Agrò, E. (2019). Love, humor and horror in the fiction of Lygia Fagundes Telles. Estudos De Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, (56), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1590/2316-4018562

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No. 56 (2019): Lygia Fagundes Telles - Regina Dalcastagnè (Org.)

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