A metamorfose fantástica: carência, inadaptação e crítica social no conto Teleco, o coelhinho, de Murilo Rubião

Abstract

The present work deals with aspects of the literary fantastic in the short story Teleco, o coelhinho, by the minas gerais author Murilo Rubião. To establish the theoretical basis about the fantastic genre, we rely on the theories elaborated by Tzvetan Todorov, in Introdução a literatura fantastica (1975); Selma Calazans Rodrigues, in O fantástico (1988) and Maria Cristina Batalha, O fantástico brasileiro; contos esquecidos (2011). We also approach the short story genre and its main features from Massaud Moises (A criação literária: Prosa ,2006), Alfredo Bosi (Situação e formas do conto brasileiro contemporâneo, 1975) and Nadia Battella Gotlib, Teoria do conto, 1985). Through the tale, the various metamorphoses of Teleco will be studied and analyzed, resources responsible for the large establishment of the fantastic universe in the Murilian narrative, in view of an intention that we judge from criticism of modern society in its dehumanizing aspects.