O herói na interpretação e na recepção crítica de “Grande sertão: veredas”

Abstract

The present dissertation consists of a reading based in the aesthetic molds of the novel Grande sertão: veredas, by the writer Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967). After an art-historical study of the types of heroes presented in the course of universal literary history and analyzed by the critics, such as in the epic (epic hero), in the medieval (medieval hero), in the tragedy (tragic hero) and romance (hero romanesco), including the hero category hero formulated by Georg Lukács: the demonic hero, as well as the hero in modernity (modern hero), there is in the present work a differentiated examination of the figure of the persona based on jaussian model, which will be used for consideration of an interpretive and critic reception study of the character in Rosa‘s work, especially since 1956. This way, it will demonstrate that current theme is sustained by the literary works that offer themselves as objects of questioning for critic thought, renewing the theoretical principles of each era. Thus, the analysis turns to a critic study of some major authors of literary criticism in Brazil and abroad, whose selection is according to the hero categorie, like Manuel Cavalcanti Proença (1958), Mario Vargas Llosa (1966), Antonio Candido (1969), Walnice Nogueira Galvão (1972), Benedito Nunes (1982), Davi Arrigucci Jr. (1994), José Antonio Pasta Jr. (1999) e Ettore Finazzi-Agrò (2004) with the aim of understanding and explaining the importance of reconstruction of the horizon of expectation from the hermeneutic triad, that allows the reader to participate in the genesis of the aesthetic object, expanding its context and meaning.