O IMAGINÁRIO EM MAYA DE URSULINO LEÃO.

Abstract

This dissertation presents an analysis based on a bibliographical research on the imagination/imaginary in the novel Maya, by Ursulino Leão. The novel was written in 1949, when the writer, student of a law course, still very young, volatilized himself into the literary world. The book describes as illusory all feelings present in the novel, which brings an interesting story because of its content of truths, its drama and its human experience. The novel Maya stands out for its structure and narrative technique, the characterization of the characters, its values discussed and questioned and the richness and appropriateness of vocabulary. Imagination, fantasy, sentimentality, the exuberance of emotions and symbolism make the novel a story focused on a vision of the innermost essence of the human being. The study is theoretically based on Gaston Bachelard and Gilbert Durand, when analyzing the imaginary; on C. G. Jung, about the symbolic; and finally on G. Lukacs and M. Bakhtin, about a possible reading of the novel theory.