UNFORESEEN OF FEAR: A STUDY OF GUIMARÃES ROSA’S NARRATIVES
Guimarães Rosa. Narrative. Fear. Child. Elderly.
In this work, we looked for analysed the aesthetic representation of the fear in João Guimarães Rosa’s narratives. The present work was divided into two parts: the first one corresponds to the examination of the fear that invades childhood's universe in “Campo Geral” and ends with the adult character in “Buriti”; the second part comprises an analysis how fear presents itself into the elderly’s universe in two distinct stories: “A benfazeja” and “Os chapéus transeuntes”. Therefore, the main objective was analysing the fear felt or caused by the characters in the narratives, on the perspective of understanding how it takes hold in the stories and articulates with cultural, historical and social segments structurally printed on them. Moreover, we seek to understand how the fear shows itself in the literary language, admitting mystical, religious and philosophical functions onto the characters, sometimes changing the way they think, how they are aware of themselves and circumstances in which they live. For the specific study about fear, the following works were used: Delumeau (2009) in História do medo no ocidente; Myra y López (2012) in Quatro gigantes da alma: medo, ira, amor, dever and Michel de Montaigne (2010) in “Sobre o medo”.
Guimarães Rosa. Narrative. Fear. Child. Elderly.