O tempo em grande sertão veredas e a paixão segundo G. H

Abstract

This monograph is an interpretative study about time in two importantes novels of Modern Brazilian Literature: Grande sertão: veredas (1956), by João Guimarães Rosa, and A paixão segundo G.H. (1964), by Clarice Lispector. The common theme, i.e., the slit to the possible, originated by the comparison between these two novels, It’s the complex temporal configurations of fiction that both writers develop in their literature. Thus, time, at first, as a structural narrative category, but also, as theme of the fictional world, becomes the key-word that will to guide our reading about the experience of time lived and narrated by the characters Riobaldo and GH, respective of the abovementioned novels. Based on the conexion between modernity, fiction and time — Jauss (1996), Habermas (1998), Berman (1986), Mendilow (1972), Pouillon (1974), Meyerhoff (1976), Ricoeur (2010, v. 2) and Nunes (1992, 1985 and 2008) — It will be possible to think about how these novels take on the problem of time under a modern point of view. The Modern Literature, as a symbolic sphere of confrontation of the theoretical and the conceptual discourses, rewrites Western thought tradition, through a movement of writing that put the language its own condition for the narrative development. In this way, time, once put on to narrative plot — Paula (2010) e Cerqueira (2013) —, It’s reorganizes the sui generis reality of the fictional world and it’s establish to us the necessity of the interpretative act. Finally, Guimarães Rosa and Clarice Lispector, through a modern asthetic construction, which particularized the fictional experience of time, can be circumscribed in a historical-aesthetic framework of thinkers and artists who reflected about experience of time in the modernity.