Entre o claro e o escuro: uma poética da angústia em Saramago

• Autor(a) principal: Biziak, Jacob dos Santos [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/126601; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/14-07-2015/000841175.pdf
• topic: Saramago, José 1922-2010; Filosofia; Psicanálise; Angústia; Philosophy

By thinking about the artistic representation specificity of the contemporary novelistic fiction, we understand that there is a new attitude towards what reality and its possibilities of gaining an outline through language would be. Thus, this research aims at articulating the mimesis that is undertaken by contemporary novel and the narrator's behavior. Therefore, a questioning occurs - which is, many times, a linguistic one - about the reality created by diegesis. The narrator promotes a bordering more than filling the meaning, which led us to the idea that the narration of the contemporary novel is structured as anguish. So, we believe that the narrator is the central narrative element for us to access the construction of the reality presented by the contemporary novelistic fiction. In view of that, we have chosen anguish as an affection mostly present inside this novel, not only as a theme, but also as component of the diegetic structure. Given this situation, we have chosen two novels by Saramago that belong to different phases of the writer's work, História do Cerco de Lisboa and Ensaio sobre a cegueira - as an exercise of analysis within the previously described proposal. Finally, this research seeks not only to contribute with studies about the contemporary novel, but also about the functioning of the narrator in face of the task of representing a reality. To what concerns methodology, the work of Luiz Costa Lima is essential to our study about mimesis, mainly because of the diachronic trajectory he proposes at the same time he reviews his own postulations about the issue. The work of Genette is the basis that allowed us to evolve in our studies regarding the narrator. In relation to anguish, the work of three thinkers is central to us: Kierkegaard, Freud and Lacan (besides works about art interpretation by the same authors)