Between the sensitive and the intelligible: passion and memory in Dois irmãos and Leite derramado

Abstract

his article investigates the passional speech, developed towards the memorialistic strategie by the narrators of Dois irmãos and Leite derramado, both Brazilian contemporary novels, whose narratives are marked by the thematic of decay. From the study of sensitve aspects, this article aims to analyse how the passional structure organizes and defines the memorialistic narrative. Arranged in different rhythms, the memory plays a fundamental role in the construction of the narrators speeches, due to the experiences described in the scenes or due to the intencionality that sustains the narratives. The analysis of the discourse structure reveals more than two subjects who want to tell their life stories, but also demonstrates the need of researching about the sensitives aspects of the text, in order to understand the narrative as a reflex of the passional charge that involves Nael (Dois irmãos) and Eulálio (Leite derramado) and changes their existence and, consequently, their writings. Thereby, it is important to comprehend how the profile of each narrator is defined and how the passional structure that supports the text shapes their speeches. From this, the analysis will follow the principles of discursive semiotics, emphasizing the tensive approach, from which we will discuss the effects of meaning minimization and recrudescence of the speech.