Shadow of a bitter laugher: the vanquished utopia in O exército de um homem só, by Moacyr Scliar
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2006v7p9Keywords:
Brazilian literature, Moacyr Scliar, Comicity, LaughterAbstract
The comic is an important element in the works of Moacyr Scliar, especially in O exército de um homem só. But the laughter provoked by his ironic form of literary representation is not a kind of relaxing laughter, but the denunciation of emptiness, once nothing is articulated as it would be of waiting. So, the objective of this article is to analyze the way as comicity is constructed in that work, unmasking the mechanisms used to make the reader to laugh. The intention is to elucidate the form by which the author, telling an involving history, provokes the relaxation, followed of the essential reflection that exists in the spirit of an artistic text.Downloads
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PROPP, Wladimir. 1998. Comicidade e riso. São Paulo: Ática.
SZKLO, Gilda Salem. 1990. O Bom Fim doShtetl:Moacyr Scliar. São Paulo: Perspectiva.
SCLIAR, Moacyr. 2002. O exército de um homem só. Porto Alegre: L&PM. [1973]
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