Anguished and Cruel

A Portrait of Bentinho in Dom Casmurro

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Keywords:

Machadiano novel, Narrator character, Bentinho, Interpretative analysis

Abstract

This work comprises a reading of the novel Dom Casmurro, with emphasis on two aspects, anguish and cruelty, as from Bentinho, the narrator character. We consider a route win which the lector will accompany simultaneously the narration and the construction a picture for Bentinho. He will stop begin the young man in love and will become anguished and cruel. Based in Rosenfeld and Candido (2014) about the fictional composition and a figurative absence characteristic of fiction, compared to other artistic modalities, we verified that the machadiano novel approaches the narrator character and readers; this allows that the image be composed at the same time by reader and narrator – this, having opportunity of non judgmental interlocution, remembers the years lived and reflects on them, while the reader understands that cruelty, self-inflicted and directed at others, worked as reaction for the anguish experienced by the narrator character

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Author Biography

Rafaela de Abreu Gomes, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) | Fortaleza | Ceará | Brasil

É graduada em Letras: Português e Literaturas pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (2013), mestre em LiteraturaComparada (2015) pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UFC, com a dissertação "João Cabral, um poeta-crítico: poiesis e crítica", orientada pela professora Odalice de Castro Silva, e doutora em Letras, com a tese "JoãoCabral de Melo Neto: à sombra das palavras, um alcance para a voz". Desde 2010, é membro do grupo de pesquisa"Espaços de leitura: cânones e bibliotecas". Em 2019, publicou o livro "Um vislumbre a caminho: a humana poesiade João Cabral".

References

ASSIS, Machado de. Dom Casmurro. Brasília: Câmara dos Deputados, Edições Câmara, 2019. 2. ed. Série Prazer de Ler. E-book.

CANDIDO, Antonio. A personagem do romance. In: CANDIDO, Antonio et al. A personagem de ficção. 13. ed. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2014. p. 53-80.

PROENÇA FILHO, Domício. A linguagem literária. 8. ed. São Paulo: Ática, 2007. Série Princípios.

ROSENFELD, Anatol. Literatura e personagem. In: CANDIDO, Antonio et al. A personagem de ficção. 13. ed. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2014. p. 11-47.

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Published

2024-06-19

How to Cite

Gomes, R. de A. (2024). Anguished and Cruel: A Portrait of Bentinho in Dom Casmurro. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 34(2), 126–138. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/48527

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2024): Aniversário de 70 anos de Roberto Bolaño em 2023

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Varia

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Copyright (c) 2024 Rafaela de Abreu Gomes (Autor)

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