A semiótica do jasmineiro em Terra de Caruaru e Santa Rita, de José Condé

Abstract

This thesis deals with the analysis of the presence and resignification of the jasmine tree in the works Terra de Caruaru (1960) and Santa Rita (1961), by the Caruaru writer José Condé. Based on the theoretical contributions of Peirce (1997), Santaella (1983) (2005), Pignatari (2004), Plaza (2003), Duarte Júnior (2001) and others, we scrutinize the semiotic relationships that insert and modify the reading of this sign in the specific literature of an author situated in a space-time, but who constantly turns himself to the past. Elucidating the hypothesis that the writing meio sonhada meio vivida2, linked to memory and literary creation, characteristic of Condé, would be the initial factor in the modification of the interpretative relations of the jasmine tree, we reevaluated the narrative functions that the element exercises in each plot in particular and how each established relation becomes a constituent factor of its sign potential in the set of the author's work. Through the sensitive and the symbolic, the Condean work reveals to us a specific field of significance for the semiotic of the jasmine tree, being intimately linked to notions of place, identity and belonging through its sensitive aspects, especially its aroma.