Mysteries of the Water: Guimarăes Rosa and Autran Dourado—Remorse According to an Intertextual Approach Cover Image

Mistérios da Água: O Remorso Em Guimarăes Rosa E Autran Dourado
Mysteries of the Water: Guimarăes Rosa and Autran Dourado—Remorse According to an Intertextual Approach

Author(s): Alice Áurea Penteado Martha
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Other Language Literature, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Guimaraes Rosa; Autran Dourado; ‘A terceira margem do rio’ [‘The Third Bank of the River’]; ‘Assunto de familia’ [‘A Family Affair’]; intertextuality

Summary/Abstract: The characters’ experience of remorse underlies, as a leitmotif, the narratives in Guimaraes Rosa’s ‘The Third Bank of the River’, (“First Stories”, 1962) and Autran Dourado’s episode called ‘A Family Affair’ (1970). The analysis offered in this article focuses upon intertextuality in the literary output of the writers of Minas Gerais. More specifically, the author studies the manner in which each of the writers incorporates in their texts the tropes of manifestation—and expiation—of blame against the backdrop of a river. The river, the space of ambivalence, the master of life and death, carries out its creative and destructive functions within the relationships among the characters of each narrative.

  • Issue Year: 9/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-18
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Portuguese