| dc.description.abstract | This study aims to carry out a reading of the collection of short stories Bichos
(1940), by the Portuguese writer Miguel Torga (1907-1995), through the ecocritics,
seeking to verify aspects related to environmental criticism and its contributions to
questions about the condition of human life in its natural environment. Therefore, the
analysis intended here will be divided into two stages, the first being aimed at
delimit the concept of ecocritic and seek its dialogues with Torguian tales; and the
second, in the reflection on the construction of these protagonists, with the articulation of
four concepts that branch out: Bioethics, Biocentrism, Sustainability and
Topophilia. It is known that literature intrinsically has a historical relationship with
social media, and nature would be no different. However, the thoughts
critics of human interference in nature and its ecological implications, which
originated at the end of the 18th century, were only consolidated after the second half of the 20th century, as well as its echoes in literature. The work Bichos, by Miguel Torga, has its first publication in 1940, in a period prior to the stabilization of this line,
but where one can already observe an effervescent incursion of these debates. So
being, in a reading proposal from an anachronistic theoretical-critical path,
I opted here for the analytical bias of ecocritic, leaving the paths already outlined in its
critical fortune, with presentist and neorealist emphases. It is intended, therefore,
underline the interaction between animals, including humans, with themselves and
its physical space, allowing reflections and questions inserted in a critical debate,
political and, above all, ecological of these relationships. | |
