Contra a Luz: insônia, prosa de ficção e Graciliano Ramos

• Autor(a) principal: Pádua, Victoria Saramago
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6353
• topic: Insomnia; Prose fiction; Modernity; Insônia; Prosa de Ficção; Modernidade; Graciliano Ramos; Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953 Crítica e interpretação; Insônia na literatura; Análise do discurso narrativo; Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953 Estilo literário; Paulo Honório (Personagem fictício); Luís da Silva (Personagem fictício); CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA BRASILEIRA

The main proposal of Against the Light: insomnia, prose fiction and Graciliano Ramos is to investigate narrative developments of insomnia in early 20th Century fiction. The first chapter, on the one hand, traces a historical and literary panorama of insomnia from the Middle Ages to the past century and, on the other hand, proposes some reflections on the theme through a psychoanalytic bias. Thus, it establishes some key arguments that will be developed in the next chapters, namely: that darkness and nocturnal emptiness may be highly propitious to the concentration on thought rather than action and that, therefore, both enhance an exceptional exploration of the characters subjectivity. The second chapter thinks such situation within the context of modern fiction, through Marcel Proust s In Search of Lost Time, Fernando Pessoa (under the heteronym of Bernardo Soares) s Book of Disquiet, Jorge Luis Borges Funes the Memorious and João Guimarães Rosa s Buriti . It is possible to envision, in these works, how insomnia episodes turn out to be essential to think the narrative composition itself, as well as to the characters psychological development and formal experiments. These two axes will pervade the second part of the thesis, which is focused on Graciliano Ramos works. The third chapter analyzes Paulo Honório s insomnia, in the novel S. Bernardo, in relation to the narrative composition itself made by him during his sleepless nights. The fourth chapter, concentrated on the novel Angústia, investigates the establishment of an anguished atmosphere and of some narrative experiments, based on Luís da Silva s insomnia. Finally, the fifth chapter, aproaching the short stories Insônia and O relógio do hospital , traces some conclusions on the function of insomnia in Graciliano Ramos style, and gives place to some final words concerning the whole thesis