A Madona de Cedro: um diálogo entre literatura e religião.

Abstract

Analysis of the novel A Madona de Cedro, by Antonio Callado, a hermeneutic interpretation that favors the interface between literature and religion. This novel is marked by the religious context of his times and the unceasing dialogue with the biblical universe. Therefore, our focus centers on the narrative, on the plot, on the characters, on the discourses and on the cultural and religious structure of society in Minas Gerais in the mid-twentieth century, privileged by material and symbolic wealth of the Baroque art and the customs and doctrines of the Catholic Church, as narrated in the text by Callado. The narrative involves various allusions to biblical stories and allows intertextual readings. The confrontation with the varied voices of the characters allows us to conduct a dialogue with the interdiscursive on the Bible and the Catholic religious culture. Therefore, this study ends up focusing on readings of the sacred, dogmas, rituals, and the remission of sin. From these perceptions, our study also seeks scaffolds that show other novels by the same author with the same symbolic and metaphorical richness of the universe of the Bible. We contemplate then a brief survey of the novel Assunção de Salviano and Quarup, also on an intertextual and interdiscursive reading. In the outcome of the novel A Madona de Cedro, main focus this analysis, we realized the via crucis relations with the Catholic tradition, which allows us to perform a confrontation by the hypertextuality theory by Genette and the effects of carnivalization in this narrative in the perception by Bakhtin. Among the contributions to this analysis, we list the following. In the consideration of the studies of literature and religion, we base at Magalhães (2008) (2009) and Brandão da Silva (2004). In reviewing the author's literary criticism, we focus on Leite (1982), Martineli (2006), Sandroni (2005) and Silva (2011). As to constructive theoretical and methodological, we base mainly on contributions from Genette (2006), Bakhtin (1993), Maingueneau (1997), Brandão (2004) and Samoyault (2008).