A problemática da (in)definição do conto
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https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2025.83301Keywords:
Conto, Conto moderno, Conto clássicoAbstract
This article seeks to reflect on the short story genre and its imprecise limits. In an attempt to delimit the essential characteristics of the genre, we propose to understand it, initially, as a result of orality, always moralizing in nature. Poe establishes guidelines for another type of short story: the unity of effect and its consequent brevity. Furthermore, it creates another logic for the tale: it starts to tell two stories: the apparent one and a second one that is encrypted in the first. Chekhov once again transforms the logic of the genre, with his open endings and plots based on common human beings and their everyday woes. Based on considerations regarding the historical development of the genre and anchored in authors and theorists of the short story, we intend to understand it as a plural genre.
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