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Sara Raquel Duarte Reis da Silva
Universidade do Minho
Portugal
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0041-728X
Biography
No 8 (2021), Notes, pages 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/elos.8.7624
Submitted: 06-04-2021 Accepted: 08-09-2021 Published: 30-12-2021
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Abstract

Aiming at situate Ana Teresa Pereira, recognized/awarded author in the field of literature usually named canonical or for adults, in the context of contemporary writing preferably dedicated to the youth reader, we proceed to an analysis of a set of books, gathered under the name of "The Labyrinth ". There are five books that incorporate a "cycle" developed around the houses. These narratives follow, in elementary and in some extent, a particular formula fiction made famous by collections such as those by Enid Blyton in the 30s of the twentieth century and still currently being re-edited and globally commercialized. However, youth novels by Ana Teresa Pereira singularize themselves not only by the strong presence of mystery and inquiry, but also by the symbolic density of certain places, such as home, for example, as well as the echoes or intertextual/cultural allusions which provide contact with authors, textual extracts, film titles, among others.