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- Abstract:
- This essay analyses the sophisticated narrative technique of Oswaldo França Jr.'s fifth novel, "A volta para Marilda," using as starting points critic John Parker's description of França Jr.'s fictional world as "a mosaic of trivial everyday events" and the novelist's own observation that his novel is built as an ideogram (in Ezra Pound's sense of "the picture of a thing"). The essay demonstrates how, by manipulating a series of motifs, the less than reliable narrator challenges his readers to help him construct, out of a mosaic of events, an ideogram of his painful attempt at reaching self-knowledge.
- Este ensaio analisa a técnica narrativa sofisticada do quinto romance de Oswaldo França Jr., "A volta para Marilda", utilizando como pontos de partida: a descrição do universo ficcional de França por John Parker como "um mosaico de eventos cotidianos triviais"; e a própria observação do romancista de que seu romance é construído como um ideograma (no sentido de "a imagem de uma coisa", de Ezra Pound). O ensaio demonstra como, ao manipular uma série de motivos, o narrador nada confiável desafia seus leitores a ajudá-lo a construir, a partir de um mosaico de eventos, um ideograma de sua dolorosa tentativa de chegar ao autoconhecimento.
Citation
Guimarães Lopes, Maria Angélica,
"Double construction: 'A volta para Marilda' by Oswaldo França Júnior"
(1991).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/7kb2-jb53
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …