O fantástico à luz da teoria musical

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the establishment of the Fantastic in the narratives in the light of the concept of dissonance from the Music Theory in an analogy that will enable us to understand the fantastic genre as a harmonic dissonance in the system of literary genres. Backed theoretical ideas of Aristóxenes, Tzvetan Todorov, Irène Bessière and Theodor Adorno, we analyze how the fantastic narrative emerges in his mimetic process and how its structure precludes a true harmonic established. For effective evidence of what is proposed, after a necessary explanation of the Fantastic and Music, uses the tale "The immortal" by Jorge Luis Borges where such assertions are confirmed.