"SÃO PAULO-SAMPA-SP": THE MULTIPLE FACES OF THE METROPOLIS

The city is a symbol of human sociability , meeting place and common life - and in this sense , their model is the Greek polis . But it is also a symbol of human diversity , in which masses of people live who do not know , do not recognize or even hostile to , and here the model is not the Greek city , but Babel. The perceptions of the city built in songs and literary texts are in agreement with the adjectives that easily come to mind when one thinks of São Paulo: bumpy, sprawling, dizzying. São Paulo does not provoke admiration, as elsewhere - at least not in the word admiration is benign and gentle . Causes astonishment, this feeling that overcomes the admiration in fright - a result of gigantism, the omnipresent sense of urgency, the unsettling awareness of being in an urban labyrinth that extends to infinity. This research aims to highlight that forms the largest Brazilian metropolis is described both in music and Brazilian literature , at which point it will be possible to establish directions for the different readings of urban space.

Two Clara dos Anjos and one Rosa: identity and representation of black woman in Brazilian Literature

This article presents an analysis of identity and representations of black women in the tales Keep Secret Esmeralda Ribeiro, Rosa and Fusilier and Voices d'Rachel de Queiroz Africa. The story of Esmeralda Ribeiro black author, published in Cadernos Negros: the best short stories (1998) reexamines Clara dos Anjos, Lima Barreto's novel character written between 1904 and 1922. In this work, the author lays bare, in a confessional tone, the daily life of Rio suburbs, from the perspective of racial prejudice, and is the protagonist as a passive woman, submissive, an object. Emerald, black writer, gives Clara a condition of the subject, building an identity as a woman and as a black. It is the chronicle of belonging. Rosa and the Marine and Voices of Africa Rose protagonist appointing chronic-tale first is the outcome of its history in the second text, both published in the first Rachel de Queiroz of chronic compilation entitled The Maiden and Moura Pie (1948 ). Rachel is the text representation of black women because they can not as white women have the lived experience as black to build identity and can do it in generalizing way considering his wife condition and his experience in the feminine universe. There are relations between the texts that go beyond the theme, Space Rio suburb and similarities between Rosa and Clara, Cassi and the Marines. You can see the works a dialogue between sex and race interests, identities and stereotypes, relationships that materialize in Literature.

A INTERTEXTUALIDADE NOS CONTOS MISSA DO GALO, DE MACHADO DE ASSIS E NÉLIDA PIÑON

Este trabalho, sob a luz da intertextualidade e sua fortuna teórica, tenciona analisar de que forma a escritora carioca Nélida Piñon repete, modifica ou acrescenta dados em relação ao conto "Missa do Galo", produzido por Machado de Assis e editado em 1893. Após o transcurso de 71 anos em relação à publicação de um dos mais relevantes trabalhos que compõem a obra machadiana, Osman Lins e Julieta de Godoy Ladeira planejaramreescrever Missa do Galo, inspirados pelo aparecimento de versões derivadas das obras épicas de Homero e pelas retomadas temáticas impelidas na pintura e na música durante a década de 60. Treze anos depois, Nélida Piñon, Antonio Callado, Autran Dourado e Lygia Fagundes Telles aderem ao projeto literário concebido pelos dois autores. O resultado é a elaboração, em Missa do galo: variações sobre o mesmo tema, de seis primorosas propostas de aproximação do texto de Machado, estando os escritores cientes de que, segundo Osman Lins, por melhores que se houvessem nesse desafio, jamais conseguiriam superar o talento e a engenhosidade do criador de Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas.

THE PORTUGUESE DIASPORA IN THREE CONTEMPORANEOUS LITERATURE NOVELS: POINTS AND COUNTERPOINTS

In O retorno (2011), Dulce Maria Cardoso invite us to know the Rui’s story, a Portuguese Angolan teenager that returned from Angola, together his family. He is compelled to rebuild his life in Continental Portugal, from a precarious and limited financial situation. The scenario was the seventies and the turbulent period of return of more than a half million of Portuguese citizens, during the decolonization of former Portugal overseas territories in Africa. In this paper, we have analyzed the theme of diaspora in the contemporaneous Portuguese Literature, considering as the start point the sociocultural context contained in the book O retorno. Thus, we have established a bridge with two other novels, within a comparative perspective, in order to find similarities or dissimilarities among them, once they address the same theme: Pouca terra...Poucá terra, by Júlia Nery (1984), that brings to the center of the narrative the emigrants story from France, under the approach of a girl called  Leonor, and Livro, by José Luís Peixoto (2012), which has the main focus, among the multiplicity of themes, the emigration scenario from France, and the loving disagreements between two young lovers: Ilídio and Adelaide. The goal is to sketch a viewpoint, clarified by the cultural studies, which conduct us to understand more largely some questions which come by the Dulce Maria Cardoso novel, and also the two other books in question.  They give us the measure of the construction of the contemporaneous Portuguese novel, and reflect the idea of a nation which uses to have a condition of discomfort. This discomfort is proper to who are at the mercy of the diasporic fateful experience, since the most remote past.  

AUTORITARISMO, VIOLÊNCIA E DIFERENÇA EM GAROPABA, MON AMOUR, DE CAIO FERNANDO ABREU

Neste artigo, analisaremos as relações entre autoritarismo, diferença e violência presentes no conto “Garopaba, mon amour”, de Caio Fernando Abreu. Publicado em 1977, no livro Pedras de Calcutá, o conto constitui-se em objeto de interesse para a investigação das relações entre experiência e experimentalismo na literatura brasileira produzida no contexto autoritário caracterizado pela censura às artes e pela violência política promovidas pela ditadura militar.

O diabo: um personagem multifacetado

RESUMO : Sabe-se que a menção a um ou mais personagens que exemplifiquem a representação do mal remonta a tempos antigos e transita pelos mitos de todos os povos. Toda cultura, de uma forma ou de outra, procurou personificar a maldade tanto quanto a bondade, dando-lhes face e personalidade. O Diabo constitui uma dessas feições do mal, talvez a mais conhecida de todas. Sua origem pode ser percebida na cultura judaico-cristã, todavia transpôs essa esfera, vindo mais tarde, ao final da Idade Média e início da Idade Moderna, a tornar-se parte integrante da cultura ocidental. Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar algumas das representações do Diabo na literatura, investigando de que forma são dadas diversas faces a um ser sem rosto, as origens dessas representações e de como a literatura brasileira apropriou-se dessa construção. Procura-se, ao longo do texto, estabelecerem-se algumas relações entre os autores e as maneiras como cada um deles desenvolve a figuração, evidenciando-se, dessa forma, os ecos existentes de um texto no outro. 

The fantastic in Erico Verissimo: analysis of the short story “Sonata”

Based on the fantastic narrative, this paper aims to present an analysis of the short story “Sonata”, from Erico Verissimo, which is part of his work Fantoches e outros contos, originally published in 1932. This is the first book published by this author, the only one of his own composed just by short stories. For the purpose of this paper, first of all, it is clarified the concept of fantastic narrative, according to the understanding of some authors – as Todorov (1979), Rodrigues (1988) and Calvino (2004) –, and, furthermore, it is briefly discussed the concepts of strange and marvelous, which contributes to the definition of fantastic. It is also mentioned aspects related to the emergence of fantastic and the reasons of its existence. To verify this element in the narrative, it is required a strange or supernatural event and, also, the hesitation of the reader and of a character. Besides, this kind of narrative involves a certain way of interpretation – the way that the reader faces the events presented by the story contributes to support the fantastic. After these considerations, it is presented a thorough analysis of the short story “Sonata”, which has music as a guide and presents the point of view of its main character, who is not named. That is the story of a young piano teacher that, in the context of World War II, moved by the desire of escaping from reality, gets immerse in old newspapers. In his reading, he finds out an ad from 1912, the year he was born, which requests the services of a piano teacher. From that moment on, a journey to the past starts, and, then, it is possible to verify the presence of several elements that point to the fantastic and allow the reader to experience the hesitation, such as the theory here in use indicates.

ORDER AND DISORDER: THE DIALECTIC OF TRICKERY IN "OSCARINA"

Marques Rebelo adopts the suburban areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro as a privileged space to situate his narratives, choosing individuals who represent the lower classes of society as characters. These characters, given the precarious nature of their condition, living in border situation between order and disorder, oscillate between hope and disillusion, sometimes glimpsing the remote possibility of upward mobility, now threatened by the fear of poverty and marginality. By doing this, the writer puts into scene two different social worlds living side by side and peacefully: those who seek to live according to the values ​​of the bourgeois social order and those who transgress the laws and moral principles and live by artifices and illegal means. This article examines some aspects of the short story "Oscarina", trying to understand how the worlds of order and disorder, or work and trickery are configured in narrative form through the trajectory of the character Jorge, the protagonist of the story. We seek to demonstrate that the boundaries between the two supposedly antagonistic universes are eventually diluted by the movement of the protagonist, who moves between the two spaces, which communicate and intertwined dialectically.

A DUPLA COLONIZAÇÃO DA MULHER NO ROMANCE A ESCRAVA ISAURA (1875), DE BERNARDO GUIMARÃES

Os estudos pós-coloniais aventam novas possibilidades para os estudos da literatura brasileira e uma delas é verificar a dupla colonização da mulher. O presente artigo busca elucidar esse tema através da análise do romance A Escrava Isaura. Os resultados mostram que, apesar da opressão colonial e patriarcal, há indícios nas personagens femininas de subjetividade e resistência.

Dislocated Subject and Otherness in Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star

This article refers to themes such as the displaced subject and the relationship with otherness in Clarice Lispector's The hour of the star (1977). Firstly, it will approach the issue of a deviant or dislocated subject according to a psychoanalytical perspective. The narrator Rodrigo S. M. puts himself in ther margins of his society and Macabéa is an excluded character par excellence. In addition to that, both are presented as off-centered subjects. Secondly, the relationship between the "I" and the "other" will be analyzed, especially concerning the conflictive relationship between Rodrigo S. M. and Macabéa in its ethical implications.

The antemorning paints

Our essay claims to analyze, in Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s poetry –mainly through the books Sentimento do mundo and A rosa do povo–, the importance of the artistic work with both the night image and the dawn one. By means of reading of the poem “Morte do leiteiro”, from A rosa do povo, we observe how this imagistic work is present in Drummond’s other texts and how, through this imagistic repetition, are discussed everyday and world themes that had been characterizing the 1940s, when Sentimento do mundo and A rosa do povo were published.

THE DOUBLE AND THE OTHERNESS IN “O CÍRCULO”, BY RUTH LAUS

This article aims to approach the issue of deployment of the self in the short story "O círculo", by Ruth Laus, through the figure of the character Paula and the pursuit of her double. The study of the female character, while literary representation, and related to the duplicity, is associated with issues related to identity and the construction of the self, from an internal scission, allowing therefore to examine the representation of the double, permeated by issues related to otherness, especially regarding to the maintenance of subjectivity in the search of the Other as an extension of the self. The double, in turn, is established as the phenomenon able to settle an active connection with the world, the dialectic condition of the creature, as a way of affirmation from the conception of (re)cognition of the Other as a link between past-present-future in the (re)construction of the unit and establishment of the balance. For the character Paula the element that indicates the division of her personality is the aborted fetus and thenceforth begins the maintenance of the inner Self of the protagonist: find what from her was split.

A REPRESENTAÇÃO DO SEMINÁRIO EM QUARUP DE ANTÔNIO CALLADO

Este trabalho faz parte de uma pesquisa maior que pretende analisar a representação do espaço do seminário na Literatura Brasileira. Aqui, focalizamos o romance Quarup de Antonio Callado. Para esta análise da espacialidade, utilizamos a metodologia da Topoanálise que foi desenvolvida a partir da idéias de Bachelard, Osman Lins, Iuri Lotman e outros. Pretende-se mostrar como a figura do seminário é construída dentro do romance bem como explicitar os vários efeitos de sentido criados pelas estratégias utilizadas pelo narrador.  

O CREDO DA DÚVIDA OU DO AMADORISMO DA MEMÓRIA

Neste ensaio analisamos, em comparação, os romances Dom Casmurro, de Machado de Assis, e Amar-te a ti nem sei se com carícias, de Wilson Bueno, tendo por percepção a dúvida que os narradores instauram nos referidos textos, levando o leitor / o analista de literatura também a esse percurso duvidoso.

AS DES-RETERRITORIALIZAÇÕES DE CUIABÁ NA OBRA DE SILVA FREIRE

O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar como Cuiabá e a cuiabania integram temática e retoricamente textos em prosa e verso de Silva Freire, construindo uma espacialidade que é tanto simbólica quanto política, o que implica entender como o poeta cartografou não só o espaço da cidade, mas também, em alguma medida, o direito de pertença à mesma. Assim, em lugar de ler o regional como um valor em si ou como uma instância transcendida com vistas a um estético absoluto, a perspectiva que aqui se adota é a de que Silva Freire constrói uma dinâmica desterritorializadora e reterritorializadora (DELEUZE; GUATTARI, 1997; HAESBAERT, 2011) da cidade em seus escritos. Desse modo, Freire mapeia movediços limites entre os distintos grupos que passam a ocupar o espaço da cidade ao longo do século XX, mas também invisibiliza as comunidades que habitavam o território local antes da colonização. Ao recriar poeticamente uma Cuiabá, o autor assume distintas posições discursivas nas intrincadas negociações identitárias que se dão na cidade nesse período, redefinindo, a cada novo texto, a quem de direito são a manga e o caju que a terra dá.