Possible World Frame and processes of composition to uncommon characters in “O pirotécnico Zacarias”, of Murilo Rubião

Abstract

The processes of composition of characters with uncommon shades do not respect the rational and aristotelian logic expected in the worlds referential base to which the fictionist has access, but that scratch, crack, fracture, or even break, instituting the unusual and unexpected by tensing beliefs and perceptions. The possible worlds armed from architectural procedures that establish the unusual and unexpected are worlds that grow their sensations at once, impregnated by the essence of an account given by the construction of the uncommon, as Edgar Allan Poe noted about an uncommon and horrifying Hawthorne tale, “Twice-told tales”. In this same universe, the fantastic tale, according to Julio Cortázar, takes the reader to dive in the margins of an uncommon world and to experience it in its amplitude of senses. “O pirotécnico Zacarias”, of Murilo Rubião, enacts a possible world whose central character configures, dubiously, as a deferred corpse and a usual man, transiting between states of existence. The narrative illustrates notions of physical and metaphysical levels overflowed by the apparent possibility of the dead to remain alive, experiencing sensations with their assistants, in an world anything natural or ordinary.