Alencar: do voyeur audaz ao onírico engenhoso

Abstract

This work aims at showing the subtlety of Alencar’s “Cinco Minutos” (“Five Minutes”), his opening novel. Among many of the artifices which characterize his general literary work, the cunning voyeur should be pointed out as the keenest character who is endowed with the ability of creating a complicity with the reader. His withering look is Alencar’s most important sensory plummet as associated with other vital senses such as: hearing, touch and smell. The intricacy of his plot is created within an atmosphere of mystery trough which these sensorial features evidence Alencar’s ingenious imagination in creating clear-cut images for the romantic framework of his literary pieces.