Aspectos descritivos do espaço em “A hora e a vez de Augusto Matraga", de Guimarães Rosa: uma jornada iniciática

This paper focuses on some textual and discursive aspects of the Guimarães Rosa´s story “A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga”, concerning to description sequences and its role in the configuration of the fictional space. We discuss a narrative matrix whose spatial and temporal structures reveal a trajec...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Silva Neto, João Gomes da
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2013
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repository:Linha D'Água (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/64416
Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/64416
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:descriptive sequences
space in fiction
literary discourse
religious discourse
A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga
sequência descritiva
espaço ficcional
discurso literário
discurso religioso
A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga/ Descriptive Sequences
Space in Fiction
Literary Discourse
Religious Discourse
A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga.
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Summary:This paper focuses on some textual and discursive aspects of the Guimarães Rosa´s story “A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga”, concerning to description sequences and its role in the configuration of the fictional space. We discuss a narrative matrix whose spatial and temporal structures reveal a trajectory towards the human being redemption – a kind of initiation journey, marked by the mystic of an ascetic life. The analyses also points to the recurrent themes of violence and religiousness that support the narrative tension, straightly related to the protagonist conflicts. Violence and religiousness express the initiation journey paradoxes. Our methodology adopts theoretical contributions of the Pragmatic Linguistics and the Textual Analysis of the Discourses.