Subjetividade, tradição e ruptura em Lavoura arcaica, de Raduan Nassar: um olhar semiótico

Abstract

This dissertation begins with the study of the novel Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar, supported by a semiotic view of the discourse in which we intended to analyze, through the course of generative sense, relations and transformations of the subject of the narrative and the effects of subjectivity of the literary text amid disagreements reflected in the tradition of discourses and break during the stages of construction of the signification of the chosen corpus. Organized in two parts entitled The Departure and The Return, the novel consists of conflict and dynamics narrative that desires are awakened by a subject who breaks at first with the impositions that demarcate the border limits of his family‘s farm. Amidst this field of meanings,some topics are highlighted such as tradition and rupture in a subjective construction that outlines the isotopies of the discursive level. Therefore, the search starts from the observation of the stance taken by André, subjective subject, introducing the dialogue in the narrative process and also gives voice to the narrator in first person, who places the narrative events. In this way that it develops within Ancient Tillage we enter the theoretical route mapped by Algirdas J. Greimas and his followers, with regard semiotic analysis that he proposes, and Émile Benveniste, in giving the field of the subjectivity of the text in study. Moreover, this research also had input from other theorists such as Hannah Arendt and her notes on the tradition and of dissertations and theses that have been developed in lines that resemble this research. Therefore, the analytical assessment pointed out the thematic and figurative elements that permeate the discourse level, as well as the outcomes that promote this field of Ancient Tillage. Finally, the steps undertaken were highlighted during this research in which