O fantástico e o maravilhoso nos contos “Bárbara”, de Murilo Rubião, e “O pescador e sua mulher”, de Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm: uma análise comparativa

Abstract

This paper aims to carry out a comparative analysis between the short stories “Bárbara”, by the Brazilian writer Murilo Rubião, and “The Fisherman and His Wife”, by the German authors Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, based on the fantastic and wonderful rhetoric. It has been identified a dialogue, probably non intentional between these two texts, which talk, although in different situations, about the relationship of couples in which the wife express unusual desires for her husband, who does everything he can to attend them. The analysis was made searching for points where the short stories are similar and where they are different from each other, considering the relation between the desires of the female characters and the notion of Will in the perspective of Arthur Schopenhauer (apud SILVA, 2006). To justify the comparison between these two short stories, it was used the notion of dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin (2015; apud SAMOYAULT, 2008); and the discussion about the fantastic and wonderful genres was based on the studies of Irlemar Chiampi (1980), Nelly Coelho (1987), Jorge Schwartz (1981), Vladimir Propp (1978) and Tzvetan Todorov (1975). According to the studies carried out, it is possible to say that the short story written by Murilo Rubião uses the fantastic as a tool to criticize the consumerism, while the one written by the Brothers Grimm presents itself as an exemplary tale that shows how being greed is not worthwhile.