O Realismo maravilhoso em José J. Veiga

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the presence of marvelous realism in the stories written by goiano José J. Veiga. We will take as corpus her first book, The horses of Platiplanto (1959). We will review the tales, “Onde vivem os didangos?” “Os cavalinhos de Platiplanto”and “A Invernada do Sossego”. We investigate this proposal based on the theory of wonderful realism Irlemar Chiampi (1980), which explains this phenomenon in the Latin American context. . Studies of Chiampi, calcaremos our study focused on the prospect that the characters experience the wonderful realism through the encounter with the wonder, which in turn, happens when you give an intense look at the object, thus producing a see through. Work the theory of the novel of urbanization, elaborated by Fernando Gil (2013), in order to show how the paralysis behavior in time applies to the characters of the stories analyzed José J. Veiga. Other theorists: Souza (1990), Myazaki (1988), Dantas (2002) helped to understand the style of Veiga's work, as well as Candido (1989) helped us in order to situate the writer in the scenario of Brazilian literature. Carpentier (1987) helped to understand the period of crisis experienced by the novel in Latin America. This whole journey is strengthened with the theory of fantastic literature, and its subgenres, quoted by Todorov (1992), without which no penetraríamos in marvelous realism.