Os gêneros literários em “Mentiras e verdades no mesmo chão”, de Maria Lúcia Medeiros

Abstract

The short stories of the brazilian writer Maria Lúcia Medeiros can be considered hybrid when we talk about literary genres, since they have lyric or poetic traits, being characterized sometimes as a poetic prose and other times as true poems in prose. The texts of the writer can characterized according to the lyric traits and in the fusion between the poetic self and the contemplation object, as Emil Staiger said. Therefore, considering that the short stories of Maria Lúcia Medeiros are hybrid when classic genres are considered, this study has as main object of analysis the short story “Mentiras e verdades no mesmo chão”. We intend to interpret and show how the diverse genres’ elements are intertwined in a prose text. In the critic reading of the text we will use the theoretical that studied about literary genres, such as Northrop Frye, Emil Staiger, Kate Hamburger