Descobertas do mundo sob o olhar da criança e do louco em Corpo de baile e Primeiras estórias

Abstract

This work focuses on the narratives “Campo geral” from Corpo de baile (1956), “The thin edge of happiness”, “Treetops” and “Much ado” from Third bank of the river and other stories (1962), book wrote by the Brazilian João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967). About the narratives, we will discuss the perspective of the child and of the madman, the way of apprehension of the world and life, through the beauty or the madness, and a comparative reading related to temporality between “The thin edge of happiness” and “Treetops”, whose similarity is present in the theme and in narrative structure. In the study, we will highlight the critic texts from scholars of the criticism reception about Guimarães Rosa as Rónai, Soares, Holanda and Tatit, besides, this paper is based in the Aesthetic of Reception, formulated by the German Hans Robert Jauss under a perspective of a literary hermeneutics that becomes the reader a major collaborator in the building of sense of a given written production, and which the aesthetic experience is taken by an integration between the legacy of the literary-historical tradition and the interpretive horizons of those who read the work, seen mainly in A história da literatura como provocação à teoria literária. Thus, the first chapter will discuss of the study recepcional-aesthetic and literary hermeneutics through of the texts from Jauss, Gadamer, Ricoeur and Palmer, outlining the main theoretical guidelines for the construction of the next chapters. Following, in the second chapter we will make the study of the “The thin edge of happiness”, “Treetops” and “Much ado” (Third bank of the river and other stories) and “Campo geral” (Corpo de baile). Finally, in the third chapter, we will present analyses of criticism reception of the small collection of the referred narratives.