Publication details
A cidade transfigurada em "A tragédia de D. Ramón", de Branquinho da Fonseca
| Title in English | Transfigured city in "A tragédia de D. Ramón", by Branquinho da Fonseca |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Convergencia Lusíada |
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| 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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