Abstract
This project aims, at first, to analyze "Embargo", "Coisas" and "Centauro", short stories collected in Objecto Quase (1978), a work that critics include in José Saramago's formative period and whose approach is founded in elements of the Marvelous, in categories of the Fantastic, as well as those of Magical Realism, all of which make up the imaginary associated to the insolite in Saramago…