As metamorfoses do vampiro na trilogia de Lúcio Cardoso

Abstract

Comparative literature enables to create the most different modes of reading from a perception of the world quite keen. In a certain way, it can connect a particular literary text to another by means of their similarities and differences, which depends on the capacity of each comparative man, since the individual guides its reading through a socio historical context, in which it is inserted. Therefore, in this work we undertake a possible closeness between Dracula, of the book homonym (1897), by Bram Stoker and Inácio, which travels over the trilogy of Lúcio Cardoso, Inácio (1944), O enfeitiçado (1954) and Baltazar (unfinished). The Cardoso s character brings the vamp essence and malevolent of Stoker, but it is not a vampire in the restrictive sense of the word. Inácio has its particularities, which are essential to understand Dracula better. So, because it is a comparative study, it resorts as the theoretical basis the Literatura comparada (2010), by Sandra Nitrini and A intertextualidade (2008), by Tiphaine Samoyault. In relation to the concept of monstrosity, História dos vampiros: autópsia de um mito (2005), by Claude Lecouteux, Monstros e monstruosidades na literatura (2007), organized by Julio Jeha, "A cultura dos monstros: sete teses" (2000), by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Da natureza dos monstros (1998), Luiz Nazario, among other texts, which have contributed significantly to the development of this research.