Deus no catolicismo sertanejo do “Romance d’A Pedra do Reino”, de Ariano Suassuna

Abstract

The text literary evokes inside speeches from various backgrounds who have in the human world, which includes, among other aspects, the cultural expressions, within which is religion. For this reason, theological discourses and symbols of religions are refracted in the literature, the same way as other speeches. Either as subject or as figure (character), the presence of "God" is repeated throughout the literature, various figurations and thematizations engendered in constant dialogue and interdiscursive with the different religious traditions. From this, this research aims to identify and analyze these figures of God in the work of Ariano Suassuna, "Romance of The Stone of the Kingdom," in which a single Catholic religion, with certain peculiarities typical of the Brazilian Northeast, is woven. In such a religion formed in the work of textual space Suassuna, various depictions of God will take place in the narrative, dialogue interdiscursivecarnavalizante and, more specifically, with Christian traditions of Roman Catholicism. It is noticed that the figures presented in the god in this religion of Suassuna refracts literary elements of the official theology of the Roman Catholic Church and popular Catholicism by introducing different and controversial forms of expression, including syncretic, that divine person, shaper of much of Western imagination. The research, basing himself in literary theories and discourses, including contributions from Bakhtin (carnivalization and dialogism), Maingueneau (Interdiscursivity) and Ricoeur (hermeneutics), among others, has resulted in a rich dialogue samples interdiscursive established from figures and themes related to the god of the religion of Catholicism backcountry Stone of the Kingdom, seeking to identify similarities between concepts of theology and religion Suassuna, interpreting possible meanings generated in the world of the literary text.