The Imaginary, the Fantastic and the Wonderful in City by Alessandro Baricco

• Grant number: 13/15007-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Maria Celeste Tommasello Ramos
• Grantee: Talita Montalvão Pereira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study aims to establish the limits between what is imaginary, what is Fantastic, and what is Wonderful in Literature, from studies of Todorov, Ceserani, and Volobuef, among others, and see which among these "genres" or "modes" are held in City, published in 1999 by Italian author Alessandro Baricco, and further, as the main themes of the author's work as a constructive force of narrating and resistance of human being before pressures on the environment, among others, that can be glimpsed in the corpus studied.(AU)