DUAS LEITURAS DE “JULIETA: CONTO FANTÁSTICO”, DE PINHEIRO CHAGAS

Abstract

The Portuguese writer Manuel Pinheiro Chagas (1842-1895) was very productive in the second half of the 19^th century. Despite his diversified work, currently, he is practically forgotten, and he is not usually associated to Portuguese fantastic literature. The objective of this work is to read a narrative compiled in the collection A lenda da meia-noite (1874), “Julieta: conto fantástico”, in comparison with an article published in the journal O panorama (1868), in which the author makes theoretical-critical considerations on the fantastic. Our hypothesis is that Pinheiro Chagas, in the referred short story, inserts the fantastic in a similar way to his appointments in the respective article. In addition, we will show two possibilities of reading the short story, which are different, depending on the publication support.