The Symbolism of Sexuality in Trevisan´s Short-story- The Vampire of Curitiba

Abstract

The paper deals with the symbolism of sexuality represented in the text of Dalton Trevisan´s short-story “The Vampire of Curitiba“. The research is based on reader-response theory where every person may derive different meaning from the same text and according to this theory, there is no fixed interpretation of any given text. The entire text of the short-story was analysed and specific words and phrases which symbolized sexuality were focused. Personal symbols of sexuality utilized by author, were searched among the inter-textual connections of the short-story. From the textual analysis, it was revealed that numerous words and phrases of the short-story were symbolized personally by the author which implicated sexuality. In addition, the sexual symbols derived by the researcher from the Trevisan´s fiction could not be expected from other readers necessirily, as every person have individual mindset with different cultural and educational background.