From the sacrifi cial myth to the alchemic integration of the opposite: the double in “Um desejo e dois irmãos” by Marina Colasanti

Authors

  • Fernando de Moraes Gebra UNILA
  • Tatiara Rodrigues Ferranti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5212/uniletras.v32i2.3103

Keywords:

Marina Colasanti, Identity, Double, Twins, Hero.

Abstract

Through Otto Rank’s studies it is possible to understand the cult to the twins as one of the mythic symbols of the double related to a primitive belief of the soul dualism. The short story “Um desejo e dois irmãos”, inserted in Doze reis e a moça no labirinto do vento (1982) by Marina Colasanti refers to the fi ght between two brothers who want the sky and the sea kingdoms, but it also shows the alchemic integration of the two brothers. This is the symbolic-fi gurative perspective analyzed in this short story, considering the categories of enunciation - subject, time and space - present in Greimas’s Semiotics. Moreover, the study analyses how the discursive level relates to the mechanisms of identity construction.

Author Biographies

Fernando de Moraes Gebra, UNILA

Professor Doutor. Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA) e coordenador dos projetos Poéticas da modernidade: O duplo em contos brasileiros do século XX e Cinescrevendo: O cinema e as práticas identitárias.

Tatiara Rodrigues Ferranti

Bacharel em Comunicação Social, com habilitação em Jornalismo pela Universidade da Amazônia (UNAMA); graduanda em Letras, com habilitação em Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) e bolsista PARD - Universidade Federal do Pará

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Issue

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Artigos Tema Livre

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