A autoficção e o regionalismo fantástico em sertanílias: romance de cavalaria, de Elomar Figueira Mello

Abstract

This thesis aims to enter the fictional space of the book Sertanílias: Romance de Cavalaria (2008), by writer Elomar Figueira Mello. We will make forays into fantastic regionalism that, a priori, dialogues with the honor of medieval knights to, a posteriori, further build the construction of the memory of a hinterland between the physical and the fictitious along the trails of the unusual and, based on these two lines, We will prove that the book is a kind of literary “tes(x)tament” by the author, now 86 years old. To demonstrate this statement, we will analyze several processes always carried out by Elomar and some innovations used in the novel. In addition to highlighting the points of contact and separation between medieval and country literature from the perspective of comparative studies and transtextuality, we will also highlight regional memorialism, which was (re)constructed by Figueira Mello, through a kind of autofictional and metafictitious methodological procedure. unusual thing he erected. To better understand these resources, we will use the analysis of characters that inhabit this space, such as the cowboy Sertano, Russo Pombo, the Great Snake, the white deer and many other figures that coexist in the imagination of the Sertão Profundo (Deep hinterland), which is now aligned with to the mythical reality of super regionalism or to the picturesque nativism without space-time limitations always presented by Elomarian autofiction. Another particularity of the text that we will also detail is the multifaceted characterization of the work that is placed as a Cavalry Novel, but is a country narrative in which the narrator/homonymous character answers questions from journalists in a set of scenes between Elomar and the protagonist as the throw of a camera in a cinema script. For the highlighted areas, we will work with theorists and researchers who are aligned with the proposed areas and specific critical fortune, including Albuquerque (2011, 2013); Bakhtin (2010, 2011, 2013); Candido (1985, 2012, 2014, 2017); Cascudo (1984, 2012); Chiampi (2015); Faedrich (2014); Galvão (1986); Genette (2006); Guerreiro (2007); Hutcheon (1991) Le Goff (1994, 2006); Moses (1983); Nitrini (1997); Noronha (2014); Paes (2016); Perrone-Moisés (1993, 2016); Ricoeur (2014); Roas (2014); Rossoni (2009. 2012) and Todorov (2014).