Memória e melancolia na configuração da narrativa de Rakushisha

Abstract

This dissertation studies the connections between memory and melancholy in the narrative of Rakushisha (2014) by the Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa. In the work studied, memory and melancholy are present both in the logic of actions and in the configuration of some central characters and also projected in the socio-historical dimension. The study contemplates the structure of the novel as a narrative of fiction, focusing on some constituent elements of the literary configuration as space and heterotopia, time and its multiple aspects and the fictional character as an individual moved in search of the rescue of their identity. The abstraction of the studies of memory and melancholy in the configuration of the narrative shows that everything in the work converges on these elements: narration, narrative and history follow the fragmentary path of memory and have in their melancholy their expressiveness. The character Celina, an artisan who makes bags of cloth, suffers an irreversible loss, in the attempt to return to social life she undertakes a vigem to Japan in the company of an unknown, Haruki, the illustrator of the Diary of Saga, written by the Japanese poet of the century XVII, Matsuo Bashô. She in Kyoto and Haruki in Tokyo, each for her melancholy motives, live a process of return to the past, through the bias of memory, and seek a reconciliation with themselves. Celina's reminiscences, her pain and loneliness find in Bashô's poetry the illumination that makes her think of releasing forgiveness to get rid of resentment and hurt. In his own way, Haruki, a descendant of Japanese, takes advantage of his stay in Japan to know his roots and assimilate the culture and language that, until then, were not part of his life. From the theoretical contribution of Todorov (2003), Genette (1973), Roland Barthes (1973), Reuter (2004), Nunes (1988), among others, discuss the constituent elements in fiction narrative; Some aporias of space are evoked in the postulates of Foucault (2006); Antonio Candido (1999) and Bakhtin (1997) study the character and his speeches; With Stuart Hall (2006) the questions that revolve around the cultural identity are verified; In studies related to memory are the theories of Saint Augustine (2008), Bergson (1999), Halbwaks (2003) and Paul Ricoeur (2007). Texts of Freud (2011) and Nietzsche (2009) cover both memory and melancholy; As Kristeva (1989), Melanie Klein (1975), Walter Benjamin (1984) and Susan Sontag (1986) postulate some aspects of melancholy and resentment.