O INTRUSO, DE H.P. LOVECRAFT: UMA ANÁLISE DO GÓTICO

Abstract

The Gothic permeates literary works to this day and has been defined according to the emphasis on the exploration of the aesthetics of fear and the relationship between reality and fantasy. It was with Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) that the genre developed in a more well-defined way and gained more defined contours, because, besides having produced a large amount of Gothic tales, creating his own subgenre, called Cosmic Horror, the author theorized about horror literature, publishing his ideas in the essay Supernatural horror in literature in 1927. Among the Gothic tales written by Lovecraft is The Outsider (1926), a first-person work that narrates a passage in the life of a lonely individual and his attempt to escape the castle in which he lived as a prisoner. The present research aims at making an analysis of the gothic constitution of the referred tale. Based on theoretical discussions of Gothic literature according to authors like Goddu (2000), Hogle (2002), Lovecraft (2005) and Savoy (2002), the research highlighted, in the analyzed story, the use of the concept of Uncanny and the protagonist"™s tragic condition of isolation and his dual character, among others.