Quando a genialidade fracassa: uma tentativa de aproximação entre as personagens Lönnrot e Holmes, de Jorge Luís Borges e Arthur Conan Doyle

In this essay, I investigate the relationship between Jorge Luís Borges and Arthur Conan Doyle from the perspective of the characters Erik Lönnrot and Sherlock Holmes from the short stories “A morte e a bússola” and “A face amarela”. These texts stand out because failures committed by the protagonis...

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Autor: Cristina Gonçalves Ferreira de Souza
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/54012
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.22481/folio.v13i1.7695
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/54012
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2206-7172
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Borges
Doyle
Narrativa
Policial
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
Literatura argentina
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Literatura escocesa
Ficção policial
Holmes, Sherlock (Personagem fictício)
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Sumario:In this essay, I investigate the relationship between Jorge Luís Borges and Arthur Conan Doyle from the perspective of the characters Erik Lönnrot and Sherlock Holmes from the short stories “A morte e a bússola” and “A face amarela”. These texts stand out because failures committed by the protagonists produced outcomes that deviate from the traditional police narratives. We started by talking about detective novels and introducing each author, then we analyzed the selected short stories, to finally analyze points of approximation/distance between the texts and between the works of the authors. We conclude that Doyle maintains the tradition and that Borges recovers the traditional police narrative and transcends it, as a form of homage and appreciation of the genre.