Plot Twist!
Tradition, Desire and Subversion in Helder Macedo’s Summer Night
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.58943/irl.v1i60.20258Keywords:
Helder Macedo, Summer Night, Desire, Object “a”Abstract
“Summer Night”, novella by Helder Macedo published in 2022, contains well-known characteristics of the author’s prose: its elaborate internal articulation, created by the intertwining of different themes and motives, apparently distant from each other, that end up very close or even merged, is always defied by a narrative technique that undoes all certainties, ending in challenges for the reader that, looked closely upon, bypass individual stories and point to collectivity, as a subtle but poignant political allegory. The interplay between memory and invention is also important for the text. Lacanian concepts, such as desire, the Big Other, object “a” and the triad Real, Imaginary and Symbolic are the tools this research used in order to demonstrate how the novella jumps from individual stories to collective narrative.
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