Artículos de revistas
Two Fantastic Magic Lunettes
Fecha
2016-07-01Registro en:
Olho D Agua. Sao Paulo: Univ Estadual Paulista, Fundacao Editora Unesp, v. 8, n. 2, p. 186-192, 2016.
2177-3807
WOS:000451741800013
1828699895204287
0000-0002-0557-9539
Autor
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Institución
Resumen
Simplicio, the protagonist in Joaquim Manoel de Macedo's A luneta magica (1868), claimed to be doubly shortsighted: both physically and morally. For this reason he was taken to the shop of an Armenian who supplied him with magic lenses. These should enable him to better see the world and people. The pharmacist Hans Schnaps, from La lunette of Hans Schnaps (1859), one of the fantastic tales by Erckmann-Chatrian, creates a magic lens that can read people's thoughts. This comparative article seeks to evince the allegorical meaning of these two texts and the role of that magical object in them.