Body and language in Nove noites, by Bernardo Carvalho, and “Meu tio o iauaretê”, by João Guimarães Rosa
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Language. Body. Guimarães Rosa. Bernardo Carvalho. Comparative Literature.Abstract
This paper explores the relation between body and language as presented in Bernardo Carvalho´s Nove noites, and in João Guimarães Rosa´s “Meu tio o iauaretê”. In Carvalho's novel, narrators, orchestrated by the narrator-novelist, try to clarify, from multiple reports, the suicide of Buell Quain, who mutilated his own body, annihilating himself in response to a conflict between his desires and the civilizing process that influences and constitutes the existence of each subject. In Rosa's short story, on the other hand, the reader comes across a narrator-writer who, staging the oscillating discourse of the jaguar, reports how he killed his interlocutor to save himself from being slain. The narrative is therefore about the annihilation of a body that, as a last resort to survival, turns to the animalistic nature, in the face of language´s impossibility to perform satisfactorily before the (dominant) other´s language. For this purpose, Émile Benveniste´s conception of language, Wolfgang Iser´s notion of fiction, and an essay about Guimarães Rosa´s short story written by Valquiria Wey are used as Reading resourcesDownloads
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2017-05-26
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vol. 42, nº 74 – Guimarães Rosa
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Body and language in Nove noites, by Bernardo Carvalho, and “Meu tio o iauaretê”, by João Guimarães Rosa. (2017). Signo, 42(74), 84-95. https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v42i74.8712