Cain's travels: a chronotopic analysis from José Saramago's novel

• Autor(a) principal: Ramos da Silva, Suéllen Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Ferreira Neves, Siméia de Castro, Neves Pinheiro, Vanessa Riambau
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/17905
• topic: Chronotope; Space; Time; Transgression; Cain.; Cronotopo; Espaço; Tempo; Transgressão; Caim.

This paper aims to do a chronotope analysis of Cain’s novel (2009) written by José Saramago, which is considered a rereading of Old Testament biblical episodes. The analyzed novel is structured upon the wanderings of the protagonist on his trips that occur through spatiotemporal transgressions. This paper intents to provide a reflection based on chronotope concept accordingly to Bakhtin (1998), that considers the inseparability of time and space categories. At the present study we suggest this time separation only to a methodological purpose. We have observed from the phenomena analysis the Cains’ displacement between realistic and imaginative spaces (BORGES FILHO, 2009) as well as between distinct times – other times – temporal transgressions, that the narrative structure is based on them (REIS; LOPES, 1988).