{"id":119,"date":"2016-02-11T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/?post_type=article&#038;p=119"},"modified":"2018-01-22T22:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T22:39:54","slug":"the-diabolical-mirror","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/archives\/article\/the-diabolical-mirror","title":{"rendered":"The diabolical mirror: fantasy incidences in Jorge de Sena\u2019s O F\u00edsico Prodigioso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/archives\/article\/whos-afraid-of\/messengers_06\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-124\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/messengers_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/messengers_06.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/messengers_06-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/messengers_06-1024x514.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an essay published in 1966 \u2013 precisely the year of publication of O F\u00edsico Prodigioso \u2013, Jorge de Sena claims that \u201cany wish of realism is necessarily (\u2026) an intentional distortion of reality.\u201d The literary work, Sena believes, will fail its plan to communicate something true if it does not overcome the mere mimicry of the real. In this essay I try to understand the way fantasy, as an extreme refusal of a mimetic representation of reality is, concerning O F\u00edsico Prodigioso, an instrument that enhances the narrative\u2019s scope, placing at the center of its meaning several issues which are transversal to human\u2019s nature and condition. Sena rejects the idea that literature can limit itself to be the mirror that reflects a surface; but in F\u00edsico, he says, \u201cmost of what is deeper in human nature (\u2026), most of what is part of the collective unconscious and common to several civilizations\u201d, is projected. Sena\u2019s allusion to \u201cwhat is deeper in the human nature\u201d refers to an object that is difficult to define, and to which maybe it is not possible to look directly at. In this short novel, fantasy is the deforming mirror (the diabolical mirror) that has the virtue of returning us an image which is also a synthesis of a blatant humanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MFTS-N1-The-diabolical-mirror.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FULL TEXT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Martins Trindade, Escola Superior de Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o Social. 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