Edgar Allan Poe e James Thurber: um diálogo bakhtiniano

Abstract

Any text, according to Mikhail Bahktin, is constructed from the absortion and transformation of other texts. The readings of a text, therefore, may be as many as there are readers, as each reader will bring into it his own previous texts. The new text will establish a dialogue with them and get richer with new dimensions. In Thurber’s “Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife” we observe that Poe’s “The black cat” brings into Thurber’s story a new interest and provides a new perception, contributing to enhance its humour.