Os mortos como tecidos vivos na memória em Os mortos são estrangeiros, de Newton Navarro

Abstract

Among the several symbolic codes in existing the cultural sphere, literary speech appears us as relevant for the analysis of linguistic and discursive multiplicity inherent to the culture, because of his tenor of many meanings, if it configures itself as device for interpretation of sacred texts allowing to reveal the dimension of many facets of the real. Therefore, this work searches to investigate, through the short stories "A cadeira na sombra", "Sexta-feira da paixão" and " Os mortos são estrangeiros", which compose the work Os mortos são estrangeiros (1970), from the north-rio-grandense writer Newton Navarro, as the deads remain present while in the alives characters' memory. Within the narratives examined, we detected appealing elements that allow us to prove that, although the death puts on the agenda the hopeless absence, "before you were, now no longer you are", it doesn't breaks up definitively with the bonds that tie the deads to the alives. The body vanishes, but the memory of the dead continues to exist among the living world. This feels either for religious faiths or for other elements of the social life due to affectionate reasons involving this issue. For the accomplish of these work, utilize the reading of: BAKHTIN (2003, 1992); BARROS (1999, 1995); BOSI (1994); BRANDÃO (2006, 2005, 2004); CULLER (1999); DUARTE & MACÊDO (2001); EAGLETON (2003); FIORIN (2006, 1999); GOMES (1995); GURGEL (2001); MAINGUENEAU (2008, 2006, 1993); NAVARRO (2003); RICOUER (2007, 1992) VALDÉS (1996); ZIEGLER (1977), among others