O percurso da memória nos romances de Antônio Torres: a constituição do eu na fronteira entre o sertão e a cidade

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Rogério Gustavo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Torres, Antônio 1940- Crítica e interpretação; Literatura brasileira - História e crítica; Ficção brasileira - História e crítica; Memória na literatura; Espaço e tempo na literatura; Identidade (Psicologia) na literatura; Brazilian literature History and criticism
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122249

This project consists of a comparative study of the trilogy composed of the novels Essa terra (1976), O cachorro e o lobo (1997) and Pelo fundo da agulha (2006), by Antônio Torres. Using the memorialistic element as analysis object, I examine the way the narrators articulate it in the three novels’ plots, associating it with the spatial data predominant in these narratives. I work with the hypothesis that, by the memory of their narrators or their characters, the antinomy between the city and the backwoods is essentially recovered, with the objective to verify that the recurrence of this contrast characterizes a thematic obsession of the author. Several issues arise then related to this fundamental spatiotemporal opposition that pervades these novels, which goes from the characterization of man’s existential problems to relevant aspects of Brazilian social reality. Thereby, besides the verification of the narrative categories of time and space in these novels, I aim to present, as part of my hypothesis, the importance of the procedures employed as a formal solution to the introduction and development of the issues discussed. I seek to demonstrate how the memorialistic instance guides the author’s process of composition as a factor of spatial alternation, evidencing a consonance relation between the novels’ structure and content, in order to mirror the psychological condition of the characters, especially of the trilogy protagonist, Totonhim, associated to his identity constitution