The double and the unusual in character’s representation in the short story “A mão perdida na caixa do correio”
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Double, Fission, Brandão,Abstract
Questions related to the identity of self have always drawn the interest and inquietude of scholars in the most varied epistemological fields. Taking this fact as reference, this paper has the purpose of analyzing the configuration which the myth of the double assumes in Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s short story “A mão perdida na caixa do correio”. The short story presents the difficult task of an identity construction in an unstable world nowadays. The phenomenon of duplicity is represented through a fission operated in the subject and it reflects the subject’s search for the rescue of the self latent potentialities inhibited by the society. In this sense, it’s object of discussion is the crisis of identity experienced by the modern subject, according to which the doubled human being is the sign of a fragmented and unfolded self. In spite of keeping in its essence the symbol of the identity search, the myth of the double is updated in this contemporary Brazilian short story, as a way of adapting itself to the demands of its historical context.Downloads
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13/04/2017
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Identities: the I and the other in literature
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