O elemento insólito e suas manifestações em contos de Cornélio Ramos

Abstract

This study aims to analyze elements of the fantastic literature in Amor em quarto crescente (Love in a crescent moon), published in 1967, by Cornélio Ramos (1910-2001), a writer who was born in Minas Gerais and who was raised in Goiás, and his work was very important to Catalão – Goiás. We intend, therefore, with this exploratory bibliographic study, to analyze the short stories "Nos sertões de Urucuia", "O homem que amou uma caveira", "A louca do morro da saudade", supported by theorists who deal with the unusual element in literature, Todorov (1998), Covizzi (1978), Ceserani (2006), Roas (2014), as well as from a critical literary and regionalist perspective, namely: Candido (1989), Bosi (1994), Leite (1978), Compagnon (2006). When we study the narratives of Cornélio Ramos with propriety based on the contextualized theories, characteristics of the fantastic way are almost tangible among the lines of the selected short stories, although Ramos (1967), with a simple language from backwoods in narrating his legends and stories, exposing facts that sometimes enchant, sometimes disturb the reader. The study verifies how the backwoods aspects, from the regionalist author that brings the remarkable presence of the unusual element in his narrative and shows the universality of Cornélio Ramos' production. We fulfill, therefore, the central objective of bringing to light the fantastic literature, elements of the unusual in the selected tales.