SILVINO JACQUES OR CHRONIC HERO brigand BRAZIL-PARAGUAY AT THE BORDER

This work has as its main purpose to address the literary narrative Silvino Jacques: O último dos bandoleiros by Brígido Ibanhes, which shuffles literary genres, as a mixture of historical account and poetic and / or fictional prose.  The approach consists of the analysis of the stated and enunciation plans of the composition, understanding, therefore, the textual tessitura and the consequent reading of the theme according to protagonist narrator plot, Silvino Jacques, who is seen as a hero / anti-hero character of the Romanesque saga. For both, the methodological perspective seeks to elaborate a reflection subsidized in the field of comparative literature, particularly in theoretical and critical texts of historiography and literary, since search thus retrieve the literary and cultural trajectory of a subject with wide projection in Western literature, articulated to the regional interculturality of Brazil vs. Paraguay border in highlighted dialogue with different cultural places.  It is, ultimately, a construction of reading bolstered by the practice of Intertextuality, as the own corpus of analysis, comes from the dialogue with a previous text, Décimas Gaúchas, assigned to the "brigand" Silvino Jacques, and linked to the popular Songbook.

NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE AND READER CONSTRUCTION: A READING OF SE UM VIAJANTE NUMA NOITE DE INVERNO, BY ITALO CALVINO

In “La mancata fortuna del romanzo italiano” (1995), Calvino discusses the reasons why the romance did not assert itself as a genre, counteracting  the “fearless and adventurous” texts from other literatures. After assuring the fatherhood of the genre in Italy to Manzoni, he observes that what was missing was in fact one of his main characteristics: the adventure. From this finding,  Calvino asks how it would be, nowadays, the Italian adventure romance. The questioning made around the 1950s (the text above is from 1953) sketches, to our understanding, a practical response 25 years later in the romance called Se um viajante numa noite de inverno (1979), in which Calvino narrates the "adventure" of the Reader who dives into a tangling romanesque discourses that never complete themselves. Such seduction strategy is associated to the actual narrative construction of Calvino, who conceives the romance as a "machine envisaged to tell a story that fascinates the readers."  (CALVINO apud NETO, 1997, p. 141). Calvino's words express two aspects of utmost importance in his literature - which will be fundamental in Se um viajante numa noite de inverno: the concern with the narrative architecture and the fascination that the plot must exert on the reader. In this reading of  Se um viajante numa noite de inverno we intend to highlight how these two aspects are imbricated in the romance, enabling Calvino to make true his so-dreamed Italian "adventure romance" from the problematization of the relation writer and public-reader.