De olho na paisagem: a construção do espaço em “o tapa-olho do olho mágico” e “o japonês dos olhos redondos”, de Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares

Abstract

Based on the hypothesis that Zulmira Tavares works in many of her fictions with the theater of falsification and truth through a game of looks and spaces combined with constant humor, the essay intends to investigate how the author operates the mapping of different forms of space in “O tapa-olho do olho mágico” and “O japonês dos olhos redondos”, both present in O japonês dos olhos redondos (Paz e Terra, 1982), as a way of undertaking an investigation into the “hidden meaning, the underlying meaning”. To this end, we will use as theoretical support mainly the considerations drawn by Gaston Bachelard about the house in La poétique de l’espace (Presses Universitaires de France, 1957); the discussions about thematic space raised by Bal in “Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative” (1985) and recovered by Brosseau (2008) when he debated the issue of space in Bukowski, and the concept of landscape worked by Michel Collot (2015).