Antares carnaval: Fantastic literature and carnavalization in "Incidente em Antares"

• Grant number: 12/09471-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: Tânia Pellegrini
• Grantee: Valeria Cristina da Silva
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In extremely turbulent period corresponding to the decades of 1960-1970 in Brazil, literature has found curious ways. The authors of that period, trying to express the disjunction of Brazilian society due to the military dictatorship and aware of the inability to represent the world as a whole, found in the fragmentation of narrative and the use of other narrative resources - as cinema, advertising etc - an esthetic answer for such complex moment. In this scenario, however, stands the figure of Erico Verissimo, who chooses different ways. Respecting his own conception of literature,the author constructed a work averse these esthetic renovations. Based on the pillars of "realism" Incidente em Antares innovates by introducing the supernatural element, well know by Todorov as "fantastic". That element influences directly in an effect of carnavalization, which is responsible for the critical nature of the work.