Reverberações do objeto em contos de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Fantastic literature uses several formal and thematic resources to construct its plots. Among them, we can highlight the objects that, in fantastic narratives, are invested with power, action and life. The objective of this paper is to analyze the object as a motivation for the fantastic in Lygia Fagundes Telles, specifically in the short story “A Caçada”, published in the collection Antes do Baile Verde (2009). After showing the recurrence of the object in the construction of the fantastic in Telles, we present an analysis of the short story “A Caçada”, whose story revolves around the protagonist’s fixation on a tapestry displayed in the back of an antique shop. Through remembrance, the protagonist recognizes, in the hunting scene present in the tapestry, an experience lived in a distant past. At the end of the short story, the elements of the tapestry inexplicably enter the character’s reality, when he, fused with the prey, his double, is mortally wounded by the arrow shot by the hunter.