The aim of this essay, As only the deceived one can love, is to investigate the city character in the book Mina drömmars stad (City of dreams) by swedish author Per Anders Fogelström. I will do this by using narratology and making a narrative analysis of the city as a protagonist, with help from Jimmy Vulovic’s Narrativanalys (”narrative analysis”) and Claes Göran Holmberg’s & Anders Ohlssons Epikanalys – En introduktion (”epic analysis – an introduction”). All of these three theorists use the narratological tool-box of Gérard Genette, and I will use his tools in this essay as well. By doing this I will try to point out what this kind of personification of the city does to the story, and how it affects the readers point of view. One of the steps of the narrative analysis is to seek for information about the protagonist in its own environment, to see if there are any hidden clues about the identity of their character. In his book A universe of the mind – A semiotic theory of culture, Jurij M. Lotman writes about the semiosphere of the home, and how the ultimate place to seek for details about someone’s character is in someone’s home environment or surroundings. He demonstrates his thesis by analyzing the meaning of different homes in Michail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Even if I try to read the city as a main character in City of dreams, it is inevitable that the city is also a stage, a scene and the environment where the story takes place. In the end of my analysis I will look to the environment of the city to try to draw conclusions about who this city of dreams really is.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:11:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LeniTese.pdf: 1044376 bytes, checksum: 32a0320e1b0d58aa028b317ff05c5c84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Departing of the Roland Barthes\\\' definition, according to which the myth is a language in complete ideological action, the present Doctorship Thesis pledges to elucidate the shapes of the amorous speech in a brazilian mythical narrative: \\\"Iracema\\\", by José de Alencar. Taken like corpus analysis the text \\\"Iracema\\\", it was presented and defended under the view of the semiotic, considering specifically the studies about the intersemiotic relations that establish themselves between this speech and the coutesy \\\"voices\\\" of Tristão e Isolda there understood. / Partindo da clássica definição de Roland Barthes, segundo a qual o mito é linguagem em plena ação ideológica, a presente Tese de Doutorado empenha-se em desvendar as figuras do discurso amoroso que agem numa narrativa mítica brasileira: \\\"Iracema\\\", de José de Alencar. Tomado como corpus de análise o texto \\\"Iracema\\\", foi aqui apresentado e defendido sob a perspectiva da semiótica, contemplando-se especificamente os estudos das relações intersemióticas que se estabelecem entre este discurso e as \\\"falas\\\" corteses de \\\"Tristão e Isolda\\\", aí subentendidas.