A forma narrativa em Una pura formalità; Mulholland Drive; Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Abstract

The Dissertation studies three artistic works; two are from Cinema and one from Literature. The movies analyzed are the following Una Pura Formalità, by Giuseppe Tornatore and Mulholland Drive, by David Lynch; and the short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges. It seeks to discover the textual strategy of the works and, thus, the meaning communicated by the objective appearance they present. The theory that guides the analysis comes from neoformalism and cognitive psychology as it is in the works of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, mostly, but also in Ernest Gombrich's approach to art history. This theory also guides the study of the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Each film is minutely analyzed using the segmentation technique - the division of film into smaller parts to find out how it works and what his development communicates; the analysis is made directly by contact with the reproduction of the films in a professional video editing program that allows collect of each frame. Finally, we outline an interpretation of the data obtained that point to a narrative form elaborated in order to predict and count on the participation of the viewer / reader capable of capturing narrative clues and, through them, solving the problem proposed by the plot. The short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius presents a plot arranged in layers imbricated into each other; although the first person's narrator is the same the story is transmitted as a set of small narratives that develop insofar reading advances. Jorge Luis Borges converted in fiction character reports the discovery of the region (a country) Uqbar located in the immediate vicinity of Iraq or Asia Minor; Tlön is a cosmos, a planet recorded by the literature of Uqbar; and orbis tertius is the the third moment, when fiction undoes the fabric of reality and happens to exist outside the diegesis, insinuating its existence between the lines of material and objective reality. Other Borges¿s short stories also develop plot lines overlapped each other, like the tales found in The Thousand and One Nights; for this work was opted for an approximation between Tlön and " Doctor Brodie's Report ". The report is a kind of response to the previous short story, an affirmation of fiction in the form of denial, expensive resource in the style of the author's phrasing. The narrative form of Tlön's short is not only drawn up in ways to expect the participation of the reader for the construction of its meaning or meanings, but challenges the reception to know which data are real, which are fantastic, and completed the operation delivers a piece that presents the metaliterature, the possibility of literary creation not only restricted to the unreachable borders of professional writers