Sebastião in O primo Basílio (“Cousin Bazilio”): an exemplary case of character?

This essay is aimed at examining the concept of character by questioning its importance in the economy of narrative text. The structure of a character is emphasized in the light of semiological assumptions according to Philippe Hamon, as well as the role of the unconscious in the constitution of the...

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Autor: Fornos, José Luís Giovanoni
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Letras de Hoje (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/25792
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/25792
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Character
Reception
Novel
Eça de Queirós
Personagem
Recepção
Romance
personagem. romance português. leitura
Estudo da personagem
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Sumario:This essay is aimed at examining the concept of character by questioning its importance in the economy of narrative text. The structure of a character is emphasized in the light of semiological assumptions according to Philippe Hamon, as well as the role of the unconscious in the constitution of the subject and its relation with the social dynamics are discussed. Also the value of the reception is noted drawing on Wolfgang Iser e Umberto Eco. For such reflections, the character Sebastião is used, from the novel O primo Basílio (“Cousin Bazilio”), by Eça de Queirós, framing him as a figure of repression of the amorous desire, subject to the moral precepts of the nineteenth-century Portuguese society.