Ficção e sociedade em Guimarães Rosa: interpretação dos contos “A volta do marido pródigo” e “Minha gente”

Abstract

This work has as theoretical and methodological basis the Aesthetic of Reception, the school of literary theory that emerged in the late sixties in opossition to the dogmas Marxist and formalist, to the extent that they ignore the role of the reader as the main recipient of the literary work. The research is focused on a hermeneutic approach and grounded in an analisis that relates literature and society, considering that is possible to find echoes of humanist ideals in this book, mainly within the tales that form the corpus for our analysis. Thus, following the methodological bias postulated by Jauss (1921-1997), in which the sense of a literary work should be sought into a dialetic constitution between the text and the reader, this paper outlines a survey of short stories “A volta do marido pródigo” and “Minha gente” of Sagarana, especially when it cames to the tematic and formal ties and to the analysis of the characters. In these narratives, it is possible to identify political and amorous disputes wich are developed at the same time along the plot, in general, is depicted the form of the assignment partisan politics and the family relationships in Brazil at the beginning of last century, each tale casts these thematics in their own way, one more comic, focusing on political and social issues and the other emphasizing family relations. In “A volta do marido pródigo” we found a hero with a obvious folk origination within a narrative that dialogues with the parable of the prodigal son and the Aesopian fable of turtle and toad. “Minha gente” tells a story of a relation between the characters lives and the game of chess. Although they retain significant differences between them, those stories have much in common. We took into acount studies already stablished about Sagarana as it is the Mortos de sobrecasaca of Álvaro Lins, as well as others, more recent, of researchers such as Luiz Roncari (O Brasil de Rosa: o amor e o poder), Gilca Seidinger (Guimarães Rosa ou a paixão de contar: narrativas de Sagarana), Nildo Benedetti (Sagarana: o Brasil de Guimarães Rosa) and Sílvio Holanda (Rapsódia Sertaneja: leituras de Sagarana).