Implicações teóricas sobre o miniconto como vazio e quebra da good continuation

Abstract

The current study demonstrates how the blanks and the disturbance of good continuation characterize a “minimalist literature”, which is called mini short stories by some authors. Therefore, the Theory of Aesthetic Effect and Literary Anthropology – by the German literary theorist Wolfgang Iser (1999a, 1999b), the thesis of Santos (2009), Spalding’s (2008) and Alonso’s (2015) dissertations, are used as theoretical foundation. In order to achieve the proposed objective, seven mini short stories will be taken as the object of analysis: four of them are contained in the book The hundred smallest tales of the century, organized by Marcelino Freire (2004), two of them are part of the work 111 ais, by Dalton Trevisan (2000), and one mini short story is from the book To save the Birds, by Luiz Felipe Leprevost.