Dona Anja’s Patients and Charming Female Characters

An Analysisof Josué of Discontinuity in the Prototexts Guimarães

Abstract

Abstract: The reading of sketches, drafts and versions – the pre-textual elements that may indicate the genesis of a published work – also called prototexts – allows the researcher, through the Genetic Criticism perspective, to understand creative movements throughout the writing process of a work. This gesture can often explain the construction of a particular text and offer a possibility of re-reading of the finished work. In this context, this article intends to analyze the discontinuity of the construction of the female character in one of the prototexts of the book Dona Anja, of Josué Guimarães, preserved in the Acervo Literário Josué Guimarães, of the Passo Fundo University (ALJOG / UPF), in the category of active production manuscripts. In this research, discontinuity is understood as interruptions of statements from one version of the manuscript to another, or from the manuscript to the published book. The investigation of these traits is based on the theoretical concepts of Pino and Zular (2007), Biasi (2010) and Willemart (2009), as well as on the critical-comparative reading of “Livrão” – book of notes and sketches of the writer – and of the first edition of the work, published in 1978. Through the observation of the erasures, configured in additions or deletions, it was possible to create a new space of relations and to understand the profile and the role of the female characters presented in the work in question.

Keywords: genetic criticism; Dona Anja; Acervo Literário Josué Guimarães.