Abstract:
Maria dos Prazeres is a Brazilian elderly prostitute who lives in Spain since she was very young. Once, she had a dream and according to her interpretation the verdict was that her death was coming soon. Due to this dream, she takes care of her burial details and trains her dog, Noi, to visit her in her grave and cry for her when she is finally gone. “Maria dos Prazeres” is the seventh tale of Strange pilgrims, from the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. In this book we realize the main characters are Latin-Americans and, for some circumstance, they are solitary in Europe, suffering misadventures, roaming between the New and Old World. The purpose of this paper is to read the mentioned tale considering that the literatures that flourish in cultural underdevelopment slowly acquire national and universal consciousness, presenting a marginalized, eccentric view. Therefore, Latin-American literatures dislocate themselves from European traditions.
Keywords:
Fantastic literature; Uncanny; Marvelous real; Latin America