Representation of death in mini-short stories in Marcelino Freire’s Amar é crime
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Marcelino Freire, Mini-short story, DeathAbstract
This article analyzes six mini-short stories by Marcelino Freire, a Brazilian contemporary writer who has excelled in this new type of narrative composition. The selected texts are part of Amar é Crime (2010). We sought the representation of death trying to relate it to the brevity, density, irony, symbology and the tension of the narrative as traits dealt by Freire in an usual and original way in in each of his mini-short stories. The state of the art is unanimous in pointing out the conception of brevity combined with density as elements always present in this genre, which has been in a crescendo trend in the Brazilian literary scene, especially after the publication of Os cem menores contos brasileiros do século, an initiative by Marcelino Freire. The analysis carried out in contrast to the literary theory that supports it shows that there is in the mini-short story the intentionality of teasing the reader to search for inferences that confirm the literary power of this type of narrative.References
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