SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN THE FICTIONAL UNCANNY: A STUDY OF TWO SHORT STORIES BY LYGIA FAGUNDES TELLES

Abstract

This paper is part of the results of a wider research entitled "The uncanny architecture of the fictional space: a study about Lygia Fagundes Telles"™ short story" (PIBIC/CNPq) developed at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte. In this survey, the study focuses on the stories "O noivo", part of the work Mistérios (1981), and "A chave na porta" from the work Invenção e memória (2009), highlighting the space as a significant category in the configuration of the uncanny, especially aspects of the fantastic and strange. In that novelistic discourse, the diffuse and confused space acquires characteristics of mystery, dream and fantasy, imagery resources that enhance the uncanny atmosphere of the story. In these short stories, reality and imagination intertwine each other to value typical features of contemporary fantastic. The fine line between the real and the unreal allows the transposition of characters to elsewhere, which is possible only in imagination, myth and poetry. The action ranges from one to another space, at a time that approaches the myth, which causes a feeling of uncertainty from the characters"™ point of view - and the reader"™s – in relation to narrated facts. Thus, we can say that in Lygia Fagundes Telles"™ fiction the fantastic settles at the confluence of opposing realities, between areas as the possible and impossible, strange and familiar, ordinary and extraordinary, novel perspective that is privileged in contemporary literature, as Roas (2014), Ceserani (2006) and Calvin (2004) identify, theorists who, with Lins (1976), Dimas (1987), Foucault (1984) and Bachelard (1989), are main references for this study.