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Stephen King é um dos escritores norte-americanos mais populares, nos géneros do terror, sobrenatural e fantasia. Neste artigo, pretende-se enumerar, exemplificar e analisar os mecanismos empregues por King para apavorar o leitor, no conto “The Man in the Black Suit”. Focar-se-ão aspetos como o narrador autodiegético, o lugar isolado, as personagens antagónicas da criança e do arquetípico demónio, e a estrutura do enredo. Metodologicamente, recorre-se a diversos especialistas na obra de King e, naturalmente, à opinião crítica do autor do artigo. Os resultados provam que, no texto analisado, King combinou, com êxito, diferentes técnicas de escrita criativa, relacionadas com o uso do espaço, o significado simbólico das personagens e o suspense crescente, para proporcionar ao leitor uma experiência realista e assustadora. Em conclusão, trata-se de uma pequena obra-prima no género de terror, suscetível de continuar a magnetizar o interesse da comunidade crítica e literária no futuro.
Stephen King is one of the most popular writers in the genres of terror, supernatural and fantasy. In this article, we intend to enumerate, exemplify, and analyze the mechanisms used by King, in the short story “The Man in the Black Suit”. We will focus on aspects like the first-person narrator, the isolated place, the antagonistic characters of the child and the archetypical devil, and to the structure of the plot. To our study, we resort to several specialists in the oeuvre of the author and, naturally, to our critical opinion. The results prove that, in the analyzed short story, King successfully combined several creative writing techniques, related to the use of setting, symbolic meaning of characters and growing suspense, to offer the reader a realistic and frightening experience. In conclusion, this is a small masterpiece in the genre of terror, likely to keep magnetizing the interest of the reading and critical community in the future.
Stephen King is one of the most popular writers in the genres of terror, supernatural and fantasy. In this article, we intend to enumerate, exemplify, and analyze the mechanisms used by King, in the short story “The Man in the Black Suit”. We will focus on aspects like the first-person narrator, the isolated place, the antagonistic characters of the child and the archetypical devil, and to the structure of the plot. To our study, we resort to several specialists in the oeuvre of the author and, naturally, to our critical opinion. The results prove that, in the analyzed short story, King successfully combined several creative writing techniques, related to the use of setting, symbolic meaning of characters and growing suspense, to offer the reader a realistic and frightening experience. In conclusion, this is a small masterpiece in the genre of terror, likely to keep magnetizing the interest of the reading and critical community in the future.
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Escrita criativa Cconto Terror The Man in the Black Suit Stephen King
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Mancelos, João de. “Medos profundos: A criação de terror em ‘The Man in the Black Suit’, de Stephen King”. Polissema (Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto) 22 (2022): 202-221. ISSN: 2184-710X.
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Instituto Politécnico do Porto