Imaginação e metáfora em Iracema

Abstract

For Bachelard, the imagination has an “unlimited power” that fulfills singular paper in the recriation of the real. This article seeks to verify the presence of an imagination of Bachelard in Iracema, by José de Alencar. For this, we came up with some considerations about the imagination of Bachelard. We investigated the presence of this imagination as much about the criation of Iracema (it is clear that Iracema is the result, not only of researches done by Alencar, but it is also result of his privileged imagination), as about the fictional universe – we pointed four elements that base the presence of the imagination in Iracema: “special habilities”, the figure of the “Pajé”, the “Tupã´s thunder” and the “Tupã´s wine”. Finally, we worked with the question of the metaphor in Iracema – as an element that also identifies with the philosofy of Bachelard.