A presente dissertação busca fazer uma análise da obra em contos do escritor Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922), que se encontra publicada em diversas coletâneas; algumas organizadas pelo próprio autor, outras publicadas por pesquisadores e editores. Foi constatado ao longo de nossa pesquisa que a contística barretiana se encontra, atualmente, em situação bastante problemática. Do ponto de vista da crítica literária, ela tem sido pouco estudada e, com relação à situação editorial, a obra em contos de Lima Barreto tem apresentado inúmeros casos de negligência. Outro dado levantado por nossa pesquisa apontou que um número elevado de textos do autor se encontra presente simultaneamente em coletâneas destinadas aos gêneros conto e crônica. Tal oscilação se constitui como índice de uma problemática ainda maior, que deságua na pouca atenção dispensada pela crítica a esta parcela de sua prosa ficcional. O método utilizado ao longo deste trabalho partiu do entendimento apresentado pelo próprio Lima Barreto sobre a função social da literatura, sintetizada na ideia de literatura militante. Além deste, a pesquisa se pautou pelas discussões travadas pelo autor em torno das questões de gênero literário e pelo próprio contexto no qual o autor produziu, conhecido pela denominação de \"pré-modernismo\". A partir da constatação de que os romances de Lima Barreto já apresentam as marcas de uma diluição nas fronteiras tradicionais entre os gêneros literários, o objetivo da dissertação foi o de tentar demonstrar que esta característica também está fortemente presente em seus contos, sobretudo no aspecto híbrido que apresentam, tais como conto e ensaio; conto e crônica; conto e anedota; conto e diálogo. Além do hibridismo, encontra-se na prosa ficcional curta do autor, de forma mais acentuada que nos romances, a questão da oralidade e da escrita jornalística. Estas, por sua vez, se configuram como prenúncios da modernidade estilística da prosa brasileira que se consagraria pelo século XX afora. Muitas questões ainda restam em aberto, embora a pesquisa tenha conseguido identificar algo que unifique, ainda que precariamente, a totalidade dos textos escritos pelo autor dentro deste gênero literário, qual seja: a diversidade estilística e o hibridismo estético. / This paper intends to make an analysis about Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto\'s short stories (1881 - 1922) that have been published in many collections. Researches and editors published these collections and some of them were organized by the own author. Through this survey, it was observed that the short stories are on a difficult situation. From a literary criticism point of view, this kind of situation is not been studied as much as it should be. From a editorial perspective, the Lima Barreto\'s short stories have various negligence cases. There is another relevant aspect observed through this survey. There are a lot of Lima Barreto\'s texts in collections about short stories and chronicles and this kind of variation reflects a big problem: the literary criticism has given insufficient attention to the fictional prose work of the author. The method used to develop this research was based on Lima Barreto understanding about the social function of literature, summarized in the activist literature idea. In addition to this, the research was based on the discussions held by the author around issues of literary genre and by the context in which the author produced his work, known as the \"premodernism\". The traditional borders between literary genres are more fluids on Lima Barreto\'s novels. Based on the above, the objective of this paper was to show that this characteristic is also in his short stories, foremost with its hybrids aspects as short story and essay; short story and chronicle; short story and jokes; short story and dialogue. Besides the hybrids aspects, there are the orality issue and a kind of writing based on journalism found on the author\'s short fictional prose. This kind of prose is like an omen of stylistic modernity of Brazilian prose, which would be established on XX century and forward. Although the research identified (even in a poor way) something that could unify the texts made by the author in literary genre that involves stylistic diversity and aesthetic hybridism, there are many issues to solve.

As produções literárias de Orlanda Amarílis, Ivone Aida e Fátima Bettencourt, sob a forma de conto, constituem o objeto central dessa pesquisa e, a partir do corpus selecionado, buscamos identificar e compreender as opções de construção de personagens e de narração que definem, nas coletâneas Cais-do-Sodré té Salamansa, Vidas vividas e Semear em pó, respectivamente, representações sociais de gênero e características do Bildung (formação da personagem), com base numa hermenêutica do cotidiano cabo-verdiano no arquipélago e na diáspora. No primeiro capítulo, procuramos estabelecer um campo teórico, de largo espectro, que pudesse dar suporte às nossas ilações, para tanto aplicando os vários conceitos que orientaram a nossa visada sobre o objeto da pesquisa, como: entre-lugar, póscolonialismo, hermenêutica do cotidiano, diáspora, Bildungsroman feminino; em seguida passamos a uma incursão no contexto histórico, na biobibliografia das autoras e na conformação das coletâneas, pretendendo situar as obras para o nosso leitor. Iniciamos o processo de análise, logo na primeira parte do segundo capítulo, procedendo a uma investigação sobre os títulos dos contos e sua representação na diegese. Na segunda parte, buscamos investigar com mais detalhe os processos de estruturação das personagens, empreendidos pelas três escritoras, com vista a compreendermos os diversos modos de apreensão e representação do universo cabo-verdiano, especialmente o de vivências femininas de submissão, resistência e emancipação. O terceiro capítulo, que complementa o de panorâmica da construção das personagens, será dedicado a examinar, de forma sucinta, a atuação dos(as) narradores(as), que, em conjunto com as personagens, revelam a mundividência que as escritoras querem registrar na ficção, no intuito de introduzir uma ótica feminina e, por vezes, feminista, ao cânone literário cabo-verdiano, predominantemente masculino. O quarto capítulo foi dedicado a uma sistematização das conclusões. / The central object of this research is based on Orlanda Amarílis, Ivone Aida and Fátima Bettencourts short story production from the selected corpus, we attempted to identify and understand the choice for constructing characters and narration that define in the collections Cais-do-Sodré té Salamansa, Vidas vividas and Semear em pó, respectively, social representations of gender and characteristics of the Bildung (character formation), based on Cape Verdeans hermeneutics of everyday life both in the archipelago and in the diaspora. On the first chapter we tried to establish a broad theoretical field that could support our inferences, thus applying various concepts that oriented our look at the researched object, such as: in-betweenness, post-colonialism, hermeneutics of everyday life, diaspora, the female Bildungsroman. Then we moved to the historical context at the authors bio-bibliography and in the conformation of the collections with the intention to locate the works for our readers. We began the analysis process, on the first part of the second chapter, investigating the titles of the stories and their representation in the diegesis. On the second part, we researched in more detail the processes of structuring characters, undertaken by the three writers, in order to understand the different modes of apprehension and representation of the universe of Cape Verde, especially the experiences of female submission, resistance and emancipation. The third chapter, which complements the overview of the construction of the characters, will be devoted to examine briefly the action of narrators, which together with the characters reveal the worldviews that the writers want to register in fiction in order to introduce a feminine viewpoint and sometimes feminist literary canon to Cape Verde still predominantly masculine. The fourth chapter is devoted to classifying the findings.

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Because of the nature of this work, it was necessary to narrow even more the object of study. Thus, among the elements that enable the (re) construction of discursive (MONDADA, DUBOIS, 2003), we decided to investigate the anaphors, especially the associative anaphor, focusing on the relations of meronymy, metonymy as well as the synonyms. It starts from the assumption that the linguistic approach can contribute to the formation of readers and writer of authentic texts in the classroom, since it occupies an important function in the text and it is responsible to print out the directions to reveal intentions, values and positions that the writer of the text wants to express. To see how this linguistic strategy contributes to the meaning (s) was selected as a corpus of analysis the short story O defunto, by Eça de Queiros. It was considered this genre because it is worked repeatedly in reading classes and represents the language in daily uses. Besides showing socially constructed situations, the short story offers to students the opportunity to experience different cultures and expand the boundaries of their world and encyclopedic knowledge. From this selection, we attempted to assess how the selected associative anaphor show judgments established by the author and guide the interpretation of the text. Supporting this analysis the authors involved in the study of the reference among them Koch (2005a, 2005b, 2008a, 2008b), Koch and Elias (2006), Cavalcante (2005a, 2005b), Cavalcante, Rodrigues and Ciulla ( 2003), Marcuschi (2005, 2007a), Mondada and Dubois (2003) and Apothéloz-Béguelin and Reichler (1995). Also utilized the works dealing with the question of genre (Bakhtin, 1992; MARCUSCHI, 2005, 2007b; DIONÍSIO, AX and Bezerra, 2007), the short story (JOLLA, 1976; BORDINI and AGUIAR, 1993), and specifically tale Lusitanian (MOSES, 1974, 1994). / Esta pesquisa emerge da necessidade de se repensar continuamente o ensino de Língua Portuguesa nas escolas. Mais especificamente, discute-se a importância de se tomar a análise linguística como uma prática constante na disciplina. Dentre os diversos aspectos linguísticos a serem abordados em sala, este estudo considera os elementos que colaboram para a tessitura do texto, enfocando o processo de referenciação. A investigação proposta volta-se, portanto, para o vínculo que se estabelece na tessitura dos textos e para a possibilidade de se criarem e recriarem os fatos e de se (re)construir o sentido por meio do processo de referenciação, o qual explicita a forma como o produtor do texto retrata o mundo circundante, filtrado pelo simbólico (cf. KOCH; ELIAS, 2006). Dada a natureza do trabalho, fez-se necessário afunilar ainda mais o objeto de estudo. Assim, dentre os elementos que viabilizam a (re)construção de objetos discursivos (cf. MONDADA; DUBOIS, 2003), optou-se por investigar as anáforas, em especial as anáforas associativas, focalizando as relações metonímias, as metonímias e também as sinonímias. Partese do pressuposto de que a abordagem desse recurso linguísticos em sala de aula pode contribuir para a formação de leitores e produtores de textos competentes, uma vez que ocupa função importante na tessitura do texto e é responsável por imprimir sentidos aos enunciados ao revelar intenções, valores e posições que o produtor do texto quer expressar. Para verificar como essa estratégia linguística contribui para a produção de sentido(s), selecionou-se como corpus de análise o conto O defunto, de Eça de Queirós. Considerou-se esse gênero por ser trabalhado de forma recorrente nas aulas de leitura e representar a língua em seu uso cotidiano. Além de mostrar situações socialmente construídas, o conto oferece ao estudante a oportunidade de conhecer culturas e ampliar as fronteiras de seu conhecimento de mundo e enciclopédico. A partir dessa seleção, buscou-se, então, avaliar como as anáforas associativas selecionadas recobram juízos de valor estabelecidos pelo autor e guiam a interpretação do texto. Dão suporte a essa análise autores que se dedicam ao estudo da referenciação, dentre os quais se destacam Koch (2005a, 2005b, 2008a, 2008b), Koch e Elias (2006), Cavalcante (2005a, 2005b), Cavalcante, Rodrigues e Ciulla (2003), Marcuschi (2005, 2007a), Mondada e Dubois (2003) e Apothéloz e Reichler-Béguelin (1995). Também se recorreu a obras que tratam da questão do gênero (BAKHTIN, 1992; MARCUSCHI, 2005, 2007b; DIONÍSIO, MACHADO e BEZERRA, 2007), do conto literário (JOLLES, 1976; BORDINI e AGUIAR, 1993), e, especificamente, do conto lusitano (MOISÉS, 1974, 1994).

As adaptações nunca param de ocupar as telas de cinema e continuam a prender a atenção de críticos e analistas. Este trabalho trata basicamente da tradução de linguagem do universo verbal - literário para o universo fílmico. E uma tentativa de criar urn caminho para o entendimento das adaptações e as razões da fragmentação e adequações que estas sofrem, criando-se um outro texto. Esta pesquisa está concentrada em uma específica adaptação. Ela investiga a forma como Luchino Visconti transmutou o conto Au bard du lit de Guy de Maupassant no filme II lavoro. / Adaptations never leave the marquees of movie theaters and have persistently captured the attention of critics and analysts. The present work focuses basically on language translation from the verbal - literary universe to the filmic universe. It is an attempt to find a way to understand adaptation and the reasons for the fragmentation and adequating process it suffers and that creates another text. The research is concentrated on a specific adaptation. It investigates the way Guy de Maupassant\'s Au bord du lit was translated by Luchino Visconti in the movie II lavoro.

Estudar a obra novelística de Luigi Pirandello é um modo de entender não apenas as razões que o levaram a ser um dos mais importantes escritores italianos do século XX, mas também o papel de cada um de nós no mundo e na vida. As novelas, baseadas em pequenos acontecimentos cotidianos, formam um grande mosaico da existência humana: uma nota no jornal, um amor acabado ou ainda nem começado, um simples gesto ou o apito de um trem, são situações que despertam a imaginação do autor e nas quais muitas vezes nos reconhecemos. Dramaturgo e romancista de sucesso, Pirandello nunca deixou de escrever novelas: foram 251 ao longo de sua carreira. Para ele, a novela era o espaço íntimo, insubstituível, reservado para a discussão existencial empreendida pelos seus personagens em uma época tão inquieta como o início do século XX. As novelas, reunidas no projeto Novelle per un anno, são de vital importância para se compreender a evolução das preocupações do autor e representam a base de seu pensamento. As últimas novelas, principalmente, trazem novas chaves de interpretação ao conjunto da obra e mostram um escritor novo e muito mais inquietante, que muitas vezes a crítica não soube reconhecer. Traçar a trajetória do Pirandello novelista, ou novellaro, como ele se definia, relacionando-a com os outros aspectos de sua carreira literária, de seu pensamento e da época que ele tão bem retratou, é o objetivo deste trabalho. / To study Pirandellos short story is a means not only of understanding the reason why he became one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century but also the role we play in the world and life. His short stories, based on ordinary events, make the great mosaic of our lives a piece of news, a love that has broken up or not even started, a gesture, a train whistle; situations that drive his thoughts, where many times we recognize ourselves. Successful play writer and novelist, Pirandello never stopped writing short stories: 251 along all his work life. According to Pirandello, a short story was the intimate, unique place, intended for the existential debates of his characters in the hard times of the beginning of the twentieth century. The short stories, brought together in the project Novelle per un anno, are of great importance to understand the evolution of the authors worries and represent the basis of his thought. The last short stories mainly bring new tools for interpretation to Pirandellos work and show a new, much more disturbing writer, many times not acknowledged by critics. To follow the course of the short-story writer Pirandello or novellaro, as he used to call himself connected with other aspects of his literary life, thought, and the time he described so well, is the focus of this work.

Les membres de la classe des professions, qu'ils soient narrateurs ou personnages, occupent une place à la fois centrale et équivoque dans le texte victorien, dans sa construction, sa composition. En effet, si cette place prépondérante paraît indiquer une prise de pouvoir de ces derniers, elle s'accompagne fréquemment d'une mise en question, voire d'une mise en danger de leur statut au sein du récit. Cette position paradoxale semble être le résultat du lien quasi-systématique (mais souvent sous-jacent) entre l'apparition d'un narrateur ou d'un personnage issu des professions et la déstabilisation des notions de signification et de vérité dans l'ensemble du texte. Nous étudierons les modalités et les outils de cette déstabilisation, mais aussi ses conséquences sur le corps du texte. Pour ce faire, nous nous concentrerons sur le support de la nouvelle véhiculée par les périodiques pour son caractère propice à l'expérimentation et sa grande diffusion auprès du lectorat victorien. Par ailleurs, nous avons centré notre corpus de textes sur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins et Le Fanu car ces derniers ont participé activement à la diffusion dans la littérature des idées propres aux classes moyennes et ont abondamment illustré les mutations sociales de cette classe durant la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle. Cela s’est fait à travers leurs nouvelles notamment, qui apparaissent comme le lieu privilégié de l’expression des interrogations concernant l'instabilité de certains discours structurants de la société : loi, religion et médecine. Ainsi, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, fils d’un homme d’église et féru de théologie, Arthur Conan Doyle, lui-même médecin de formation et William Wilkie Collins, homme de lettres portant un grand intérêt à la chose scientifique (comme le suggère son long roman didactique Heart and Science paru en 1883) ont tous trois contribué à la définition des relations particulières entre les membres des professions et le reste de la société victorienne. De plus, leur participation active à la publication des périodiques les plus lus de leur époque atteste de leur contribution importante à la définition de la pensée victorienne. / Members of the middle class, particularly clergymen, doctors, and lawyers occupy a central place in Victorian literature, both as narrators and characters. However, it seems that this prominent place fosters questioning as much as empowerment. This paradoxical position seems to stem from the recurrent appearance of members of the professions in texts within which the principles of truth and meaning are undermined. Therefore, we will show how members of the professions, both as narrators and characters, put forward discursive strategies which allow them to manipulate the notion of truth and to destabilize meaning. In order to do so, we will study predominantly short stories, as this genre was favoured by Victorian writers as the locus of narrative and literary experimentation. Besides, this genre was widely read by Victorian audiences and can be seen as a privileged media for authors to express their doubts and commentaries on contemporary society. We have chosen to study the works of three authors in particular, who played a vital role in the bringing of the middle classes on the forefront of Victorian literary representation. Indeed, we will focus on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the son of a clergyman and a man fascinated by the arcana of theology, Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor himself, before he became a writer and William Wilkie Collins, who had a passion for science and the transformations its growing influence imposed on Victorian society. What is more, these three writers' active role in the establishment of the most popular Victorian periodicals attests to their vast contribution to the development of Victorian values.

Notre étude consiste à retracer l'histoire du genre narratif arabe et plus précisément la nouvelle arabe de la fin du XIXème siècle jusqu'à 1969. Dans un premier temps, nous faisons un rappel historique et littéraire incluant la floraison du genre narratif en Egypte. Dans un second temps, nous analysons, à travers les préfaces de Mahmoud Taymour, l'évolution et les changements que le genre narratif arabe a subis dans la première moitié du XXème siècle. Enfin, la troisième partie illustre le gain en maturité du genre romanesque et plus précisément la nouvelle, à travers les oeuvres de Naguib Mahfouz, dans lesquelles nous trouvons un tableau complet de la société égyptienne et arabe de l'époque. / Our study consists on tracking the history of the arab narrative type, more precisely the arab novel since end of nineteenth century till 1969. First, we start in the first chapter by a litterature and historical reminder of the birth of the narrative type in Egypt. Then, we analyze in the second chapter, through the Mahmoud Taymour introductions, the changes and evolutions that occur on this arab narrative type in the first half of the twentieth century. Finaly, the third chapter is the occasion to illustrate the gain in maturity of the narrative litterature and more specificaly the novel. This illustration is done through Naguib Mahfouz novels where we find a complete drawing of the egyptian and arab society at that time.

Paru en 1983, The Bone People, le premier et à ce jour le seul roman de l'auteure néo-zélandaise aux origines maories Keri Hulme (1947-), a profondément marqué ses lecteurs, car il a montré, de façon poignante et unique, une image d'Aotearoa- Nouvelle-Zélande, de sa nature rugueuse, de ses habitants et de la richesse de la culture maorie. À l'inverse, les poèmes et les nouvelles de Hulme n'ont pas reçu le même accueil et n'ont été que très peu étudiés, c'est pourquoi nous nous y intéressons dans cette thèse. Ces textes brefs laissent au lecteur une sensation d'étrangeté. Est étrange ce qui est hors du commun, bizarre, surprenant. L'étrange possède un caractère indéfinissable, si bien qu'il est parfois impossible de dire précisément ce qui est à l'origine de ce sentiment singulier difficile à cerner, parfois inquiétant. L'objectif de notre étude est de mieux comprendre et d’expliquer les manifestations de l'étrangeté dans l'oeuvre courte de Keri Hulme. Pour ce faire, la première partie ancre l'oeuvre de Keri Hulme dans des contextes historique, culturel et littéraire afin de mieux cerner les identités contemporaines multiples de la Nouvelle-Zélande et de montrer l'affiliation littéraire de Hulme. Dans notre deuxième partie, nous étudions les rapports de l'humain à la nature et au vivant non-humain dans ce que nous nommons l'écriture écopoétique de Hulme. Enfin, dans la troisième partie, nous nous intéressons à la représentation de la hantise et du blocage dans la transmission immatérielle. Nous analysons la manière dont l'auteure se sert des caractéristiques formelles du genre de la nouvelle, mettant à l'épreuve et façonnant sa forme malléable pour exprimer des maux néo-zélandais et traduire la rupture dans la transmission de l'héritage culturel. Nous démontrons que l'écriture de Hulme offre aussi une forme de fantastique, qui invite le lecteur à accepter l'inexpliqué et à voir que se trouver dans un entre-deux culturel – maori et anglo-saxon – permet d'adhérer à deux systèmes de pensée qui confluent et s’enrichissent mutuellement. / First published in 1983, The Bone People, to this day the only novel by New Zealand author with Maori origins Keri Hulme (1947-), had a tremendous impact on its readers. It struck them for its capacity to show, in a unique and poignant way, an image of Aotearoa- New Zealand, its rough nature, its inhabitants and the enriching Maori culture. On the contrary, Hulme's poems and short stories were not read with the same enthusiasm and have been the subject of very few studies. This is the reason why I decided to focus on Hulme’s short texts in this dissertation. These short texts convey the uncanny, which can be defined as a feeling of unease, strangeness and unfamiliarity. What is strange can also be incomprehensible, so that it can be difficult to understand the origin of this feeling of unease. The aim of this study is to better understand and explain the manifestations of the uncanny in Keri Hulme short texts. The first part focuses on the historical, cultural and literary contexts in order to grasp the multiple contemporary identities of New Zealand and to show Hulme's literary affiliation. In the second part, I study the links between humans, nature and the non-human in what I call Hulme's ecopoetics. Lastly, I focus in the third part on the representation of haunting and the impossibility to pass on the cultural heritage. I study how the author uses and challenges the characteristics of the short story, shaping its malleable form to express New Zealand wounds. I also intend to demonstrate that Hulme's writings contain the fantastic, which invites the reader to accept what cannot be explained and realize that being in-between two cultures – maori and anglo-saxon – allows to better understand two belief systems that come together and enrich each other.

Cette thèse s’attache à étudier la notion d’événement dans la nouvelle contemporaine, à travers un corpus de recueils américains, français et italiens, parus entre 1980 et 2007. Habituellement défini comme une rupture, engageant un bouleversement ontologique pour le sujet qui l’éprouve, l’événement connaît une autre représentation dans les récits brefs ici étudiés, engageant une réflexion épistémologique sur la littérature contemporaine, entre conscience d’un monde marqué par le manque et volonté de continuer malgré tout à raconter, selon d’autres modalités. Cette réflexion est mise en évidence par le récit bref. Nos nouvelles montrent à chaque fois ce qui semble être un appauvrissement. Ainsi, l’événement connaît un évidement : sa portée est atténuée, il n’entraîne pas de changements dans la conscience du personnage. De même, nos textes font voir un désengagement des instances auctoriale et narratoriale, empêchant l’établissement d’une signification univoque et d’une morale explicite. Enfin, ces histoires narrent fréquemment un dysfonctionnement, tant matériel que du récit en lui-même. Mais à chaque fois, ces carences sont en fait le lieu d’un renouvellement. L’évidement est la possibilité de proposer un autre récit où le sensationnel est mis à distance ; le désengagement permet au lecteur d’adopter vis-à-vis du texte une attitude qui ne soit pas celle de la maîtrise absolue ; le dysfonctionnement n’inaugure pas une nouvelle ère du soupçon, mais une volonté de souligner le potentiel narratif. De cette façon, la nouvelle contemporaine comme l’événement narré affichent une tension, entre perte et renouvellement. / This thesis sets out to study the notion of event in the contemporary short story, through a corpus of american, french and italian collections, published between 1980 and 2007. Usually defined as a breakdown, which leads an ontological upheaval for the subject who distressed it, the event has another representation in the short stories studied in this corpus. It puts an epistemological reflection about the contemporary literature, between awareness of a world marked by a gap and will of continuing to tell in any case, but with other modes. This reflection is particularly evident in the short story. Our collections show every time what seems to be an impoverishment. Indeed, the event distresses a « digging » : its impact is softened, it doesn’t lead changes in the character’s conscience. Similarly, our texts show a withdrawal of the author and the narrator, which prevents an unequivocal signification and an explicit moral. Finally, these stories frequently tell about a material malfunctionning, that also concerns the story itself. But everytime, these lacks are in fact the possibility of a renewal. The « digging » gives the opportunity to offer another story where the sensational is put at a distance ; the withdrawal allows to the reader to have with the text a posture which isn’t an absolute control ; the malfunctionning isn’t the beginning of a new suspicion’s age, but a will to emphasize narrative potential. By this way, the contemporary short story and the related event show a tension between loss and renewal.

(in English) The topic of this master thesis is a character of the double in Spanish short stories focused on 20th century. Firstly, we describe the historical context of this literary theme and we observe its changing through the time, its transition from a tragic tone to absurdity or a comic tone. The aim of this work is to observe Freud's concept of "unheimlich" feeling applied to the topic of the double and to investigate what literary tools can intensify this feeling in the reader. After this, we focus on repeating motives in selected short stories and we contemplate constituent aspects of this topic in the context of humanities.