PERCURSOS DO TRÁGICO NOS CONTOS DE MIGUEL TORGA

Abstract

Miguel Torga, the Portuguese doctor's literary pseudonym Adolfo Correia da Rocha (1907-1995), he stands out, according to the critic, for possessing a talent varied while writer. The present work that has as title Tragic Paths in Miguel Torga's Stories (Percursos do trágico nos contos de Miguel Torga) in which it intends to point and to discuss the tragic as central element in five short stories by Torga: Madalena, of the book Bugs (Bichos); Maria Lionça (A Maria Lionça), of Mountaint Short Stories (Contos da montanha); The Big-Soul (O Alma-Grande), The Miracle (O Milagre) and The Leper (O Leproso), of New Mountain Short Stories (Novos contos da montanha), being used of the comparative inclination, of the bibliographical research, of the deductive method and of the literary analysis. To develop these readings, theories were used of Edgar Allan Poe, André Jolles, Raimundo Magalhães Júnior, Hermann Lima, Júlio Córtazar, Nádia Gotlib, Massaud Moisés, Ricardo Piglia, António Manuel Ferreira, among others, that offer subsidies for the history and analysis of the short stories while it forms it compacts, concise, with own and very defined identity. On the other hand, in the discussions concerning the tragic, it is objectified to join a dialogue among the tragic traditional and the tragic modern in the five stories selected. For so much, they were used, besides the writer's critical fortune, studies of Aristotle, Kitto, Albin Lesky, Nietzsche, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Vidal-Naquet, Emil Staiger, Northrop Frye, Junito de Souza Brandão, Raymond Williams, Rachel Gazolla, Lígia Militz da Costa, Maria Luiza Ritzel Remédios, among others. Finally, it is attempted with this work to offer a contribution to enlarge, still plus, the reading and the knowledge of Miguel Torga's short story production in the panorama of the Portuguese literature.