A cidade transfigurada em "A tragédia de D. Ramón", de Branquinho da Fonseca

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Title in English Transfigured city in "A tragédia de D. Ramón", by Branquinho da Fonseca
Authors

ŠPÁNKOVÁ Silvie

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Convergencia Lusíada
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://rgplrc.libware.net/ojs/index.php/rcl/article/view/289
Keywords urban imagery; night walking; Branquinho da Fonseca; Lisbon in Portuguese literature
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Description The article focuses on urban imagery depicted in the short story “A tragédia de D. Ramón” (Caminhos magnéticos, 1938) by Branquinho da Fonseca (1905-1974). Based primarily on the myth-criticism and phenomenological method (Sansot, 1971; Hodrová, 2006), the present analysis stresses various literary parallels that can be found in Fonseca’s short story. From this point of view, two representational modes can be observed: the “sensorial” city, in which a literary dialogue with the poetry of Cesário Verde can be detected, and the “hallucinatory city”, which promotes a dialogue with the imaginary of Raul Brandao and Fialho de Almeida. In both cases the motif of the night walking in the city can be read as a symbolic demand for the self, which reveals a psychological drama of the protagonist, as well as a trauma of a migrant in the 20th century.
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