scholarly journals A loucura entre nós: A epidemia em O Horla, de Guy de Maupassant, e na política atual do novo coronavírus

Abusões ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiane Alves Martins
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Através do estudo da vertente fantástica no escritor francês Guy de Maupassant, o presente artigo se dispõe a analisar a presença do tema da epidemia em sua novela O Horla, produção de grande importância em meio ao seu rico repertório literário. Em um paralelo com a obra, será abordada a atual pandemia de coronavírus, em um estudo de diferentes medidas adotadas por países que se destacaram no combate ao vírus. Enquanto alguns governos tiveram resultados encorajadores desde o início do surto da doença, outros apresentaram diversos problemas na contenção do vírus, que revelou deficiências profundas na liderança de certas nações. Em uma abordagem intimista, a obra de Maupassant traz um ser de fora que ameaça a segurança de seu personagem, em um fenômeno que ele identifica como uma epidemia de loucura que, na narrativa, teria origem no Brasil. Na atualidade, essa passagem ganha vida na maneira como certos países lidaram com a crise em suas mãos. Tendo como estratégia presidencial um negacionismo extremo, esse fenômeno se mostrou bastante presente em governos como os do Brasil e dos EUA, que se apoiaram em um discurso cada vez mais distanciado da perspectiva científica. Em meio ao caos surgido da atual pandemia, O Horla mostra seu caráter atemporal.

Author(s):  
Oksana Galchuk

The theme of illegitimacy Guy de Maupassant evolved in his works this article perceives as one of the factors of the author’s concept of a person and the plane of intersection of the most typical motifs of his short stories. The study of the author’s concept of a person through the prism of polivariability of the motif of a bastard is relevant in today’s revision of traditional values, transformation of the usual social institutions and search for identities, etc. The purpose of the study is to give a definition to the existence specifics of the bastard motif in the Maupassant’s short stories by using historical and literary, comparative, structural methods of analysis as dominant. To do this, I analyze the content, variability and the role of this motive in the formation of the Maupassant’s concept of a person, the author’s innovations in its interpretation from the point of view of literary diachrony. Maupassant interprets the bastard motif in the social, psychological and metaphorical-symbolic sense. For the short stories with the presentation of this motif, I suggest the typology based on the role of it in the structure of the work and the ideological and thematic content: the short stories with a motif-fragment, the ones with the bastard’s leitmotif and the group where the bastard motif becomes a central theme. The Maupassant’s interpretation of the bastard motif combines the general tendencies of its existence in the world’s literary tradition and individual reading. The latter is the result of the author’s understanding of the relevant for the era issues: the transformation of the family model, the interest in the theory of heredity, the strengthening of atheistic sentiments, the growth of frustration in the system of traditional social and moral values etc. This study sets the ground for a prospective analysis of the evolution the bastard motif in the short-story collections of different years or a comparative study of the motif in short stories and novels by Maupassant.


Author(s):  
Renate von Bardeleben

This chapter concentrates on European realist innovators—Björnstjerne Björnson, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant—and their effect on the formative period of American realism. It studies in detail the transatlantic development of new techniques and discusses the ways in which these new methods were reflected in the works of American authors and critics. Inspired by the theories and practice of their precursors, American writers felt liberated to introduce new narrative strategies to represent America’s rising urbanism, the struggles of the social classes, and the increase of social mobility in the industrial age. They also dealt with the emancipated “New Woman” and the changing relationship between the sexes. The guiding principles on which writers on both sides of the Atlantic agreed were truth, sincerity, and frankness.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cogman
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1927 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Eunice R. Goddard ◽  
Heinrich Gelzer
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2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-241
Author(s):  
Atia Sattar
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2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (38) ◽  
pp. 414
Author(s):  
Laura Utrera

Este trabajo propone otra lectura del cuento “La gallina degollada” de Horacio Quiroga a través de la cual pueden plantearse los límites del naturalismo en el relato. Se parte de la lectura tradicional para advertir el ingreso de elementos vinculados con el abandono, el melodrama y el exceso. De este modo, la nota monocorde que aporta el naturalismo en el relato no alcanza a justificar la dimensión de lo narrado, no alcanza solo con pensar en el objetivo de toda ficción naturalista: demostrar el funcionamiento de las patologías sociales. El relato actualiza el horror aprehendido de Edgar A. Poe y de Guy de Maupassant (extremado al máximo), se vuelve más real y en su cruce con las páginas de crímenes y rarezas de la prensa de la época, el infanticidio que también puede leerse como una forma de abandono, se articula con una intuición retórica: el melodrama y el sensacionalismo típico de muchas de las ficciones del escritor


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