Entre Coronéis e Peões: Conflitos, Elementos Composicionais e Presença Poética no Romance

Abstract

This work approaches an investigation about the compositional elements of the novel Chão das Carabinas, in which Moura Lima transfers to the fictional plan. This work, although still not much presented in criticism and academic means in our country, it is important for the literary studies it justifies the approach of some points in conformity with the regionalism novels in 1930. We search to evaluate this work according to four striking aspects it presents. This on the first chapter, we intended to outline the conflicts, covenants and its rupture, from Claude Bremond and Tzvetan Todorov´s considerations, collected with the critical fortune produced by them. On the second chapter, we started from the questions related to the characters, checking its function and evolution, approached according to Vladimir Propp´s theory. On the third chapter, we analyzed the questions related to the speech, intending to show the narrative for which the write relies to compose the novel. And finally, on the fourth chapter, we observed some aspects related to the poetic images in the novel, as a poetic resource and the way our study object is inserted in it, unveiled by Gaston Bachelard.