Formas inacabadas: a questão da romancização em textos de Clarice Lispector e Tennessee Williams

Abstract

This paper considers the feasibility of applying the concepts of “unfinished forms” and “romancization” (proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin) to two literary forms (the modern short story and [modern] drama in one act), as well to verify the usefulness of the concept to the analysis of works of modern authors that are framed in these forms - in our case, the short stories, “Onde estivestes de noite” and “Seco estudo de cavalos”, by Clarice Lispector, and the one-act plays “Talk to me like the rain and let me listen” and “The lady of larkspur lotion” by Tennessee Williams. We tried thus problematizing the theories about the short story most used by the critical fortune (especially those by Poe, Cortázar and Piglia), arguing their applicability in a modern short story, while we verified the particular structure of the one-act play, considering its development within the dramatic genre and its relationship with the short story. Finally, we intend to establish the contribution of Clarice Lispector and Tennessee Williams in the questioning of traditional forms of short story and drama.