As representações do espaço e outras estratégias narrativas em dois romances de Bernardo Carvalho

• Autor(a) principal: Nóbrega Júnior, Clóvis Meireles
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000724j
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5597
• topic: Bernardo Carvalho; Espacialidade; Estratégias narrativas; Literatura brasileira contemporânea; Bernard Carvalho; Spatiality; Narrative strategies; Contemporary brazilian literature; LETRAS::LITERATURA BRASILEIRA

This thesis is a systematic analysis of aspects related to the representation of spatiality, as well as other narrative strategies employed by Bernardo Carvalho in the construction of two of his novels: Mongolia (2003) and The sun sets in São Paulo (2007). What most caught our attention in our corpus was a certain similarity between the novels in relation to what we may call the “work’s architecture,” since the procedures used in the construction of the novels are in many ways alike. In both of them we have characters who, at some point in the plot, undertake trips to unknown places which they try to comprehend as well as represent in their narratives through different forms and in different discursive genres (such as travel diaries, personal letter, oral narration) present in the novels. Another important similarity refers to the fact that the novels, at various times, present first-person narrators who seek to always represent the spaces from their perceptions and points of view. Another significant characteristic – probably a trademark in Bernardo Carvalho’s style –, is the use of the presence of writing characters who, if they are not presently writing a novel, at least plan to or are really writing a novel, if not the novel we are reading. We are aware that the term “space” has different meaning and theoretical importance in various fields of knowledge as Geography, Art Theory, Physics, Urbanism, Semiotics, Theory of Literature and Narratology among others, nevertheless we tried to use it in this dissertation through a transdisciplinary way, favoring approaches concerning the fields of the Theory of Literature and Narratology.