The Transfiguration of the Dragon or the Survival of Regionalism
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v1i26p12-39Keywords:
Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia, “Reminisção”, transfiguration, regional-universalAbstract
In "Reminisção", a story from Tutaméia, Romão shows an unconditional love for his wife. In the end, she is transfigured while hugging her husband, who "dies". The story offers a parodic allegory of the role of Rosa, the author who overcomes the overdetermination of Brazilian literature to regionalism and to false copies of foreign trends. The table fo contents of Tutaméia suggests that some stories may work as metaphors for the point of view of João Guimarães Rosa on the literary order in which he participates and intervenes. It seems to me that the story "Reministion" offers Rosa's point of view on the role of his regional-universal author's name in the evolution of the history of Brazilian literature. To study how this function was constituted, I consider Candido's decisive contribution since the launch of the fictionist's first book in the 1940s and also an essay from the 1970s that attributed to Rosa the epithet of the Latin American superregionalist writer. In order to analyze "Reministion" as a parodic allegory of the regional-universal author function, I propose a division of the story into three parts, which correspond to three stages of historical evolution of regionalism. Also, I analyze how the exotic vocabulary contributes to the indeterminacy of the text meaning. It also provides materiality to the contours of the metaphysics of sublation that is implied in the parodied transfigurative function.
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