O discurso às avessas em Numa e a Ninfa de Lima Barreto

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Rose Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4849
• topic: Dialogismo; Ironia; Numa e Ninfa; Dialogism; Irony; Numa e a Ninfa; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA BRASILEIRA

The objective of this research is to recognize and analyze the diversity of social voices present in Lima Barreto s novel Numa e a Ninfa, written in 1915. Possessing an innovative style and an inverted discourse, contradictory to the official patterns, Barreto was responsible for introducing a new type of literature, one which integrates fiction to reality, with the portrayal of the First Republic s social, political, and historical facts. The understanding of Barreto s proposal in creating the interaction among different fields of knowledge is, in this work, based on Mikhail Bakhtin s Diologism, which analyzes language s possibility to establish continuous linkages between individuals and societies, enabling a better understanding of them. In an objective, clear, and ironic way, Barreto s works analyze the individuals, their attitudes and social relations, attempting to incite the reader towards perception and conscience of a true reality underneath the masks worn for the performance of social roles. Through the depiction of characters such as Edgarda, Numa Pompílio, and Benevenuto, the author molds stereotypes, which denounce ambition, hypocrisy, and selfishness, common aspects among politicians. The ironical approaches used throughout the narrative identify Barreto s tone, used to combat, through literature, the social mishaps present in the politics of the Brazilian society. In order to promote the discussion about irony, Linda Hutcheon s and Colin Muecke s concepts are fundamental, as this resource provides the reader a more active interpretative process. The comparative path taken by Barreto, in Numa e a Ninfa, is also another efficient aspect to denounce and question the posture and character of people s representatives. The author confronts his fictitious characters Numa Pompílio and Edgarda with the Roman historical figures Numa Pompílio and the Egeria nymph (714-671 b.C.) in order to lead the reader s perception of inverted discourse, evinced by the contrasting characteristics. Numa e a Ninfa is a novel which portrays Lima Barreto s trajetory in his search for a less alienating literature and for one that conducts the reader to a posture of inquirer of reality and active participant.