The subversion of the real in the fantastic narrative of Guy de Maupassant

• Grant number: 12/17319-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: November 07, 2012
• End date: May 06, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Maria Lídia Lichtscheidl Maretti
• Grantee: Renan Fornaziero de Oliveira
• Supervisor: Mariane Bury
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/15955-0 - Beyond the real and the factual: the fantastic in Guy de Maupassant and Lygia Fagundes Telles., BP.MS

Abstract

This paper proposes a discussion about the presence of the fantastic literature in the narrative of Guy de Maupassant. An eminent writer from 19 century that was situated in a fin-de-siècle and decisive period for the human development in all aspects of knowledge (social, economic and philosophical). This moment, made the human in crisis to face the new limits established. Maupassant's work deals with such elements, performing through the language, the doubt, the uncertainty in a way that the unconscious is presented as decisive element. Therefore, the present paper intends to reflect about the fantastic production of the French author under the orientation of Freud's theory and the unconscious, and the authors that discuss the confluences between the literature and the psychoanalysis. (AU)