Abstract
Inglês de Sousa's fictional work is usually understood within the aesthetic parameters of Realism-Naturalism, which is coherent and productive when we discuss his novels. However, in his last book, Contos amazônicos (1893), some narratives subvert this supposed hermeneutic simplicity. Short stories such as “A feiticeira” and “O gado do Valha-me-Deus” diverge from historical or sociological representation, constituting a corpus of Brazilian fantastic narrative that has not been much explored, yet is full of aspects that dialogue with the discussions developed on the discursive elements that sustain the fantastic event in the plot of a story. When dealing with these short stories by Inglês de Sousa, we will use the concepts of “intrusion fantasy” and “portal-quest fantasy”, developed by Mendlesohn (2008), to approach the construction of the “narrated world” (Schmid, 2010) in which the fantastic events are revealed.
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