Representation and esthesia in the fantasy figures of O meu pé de laranja lima

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the ideas of representation and esthesia in the literary text, in its manifestations in the production of meaning, starting from the paratextual elements, which indicate the themes involved. For that, we took as a corpus the book O meu pé de orange lima (1968), by José Mauro de Vasconcelos, a work in which the figurative phenomenon is evidenced in a metaphysical way. The discussions will be guided by the philosophical concerns of Foucault (1985) and by the constitutions of meaning of Genette (1987), Greimas (2002; 2008) and Bertrand (2003). The investigation is constituted by excerpts from the childhood and youth novel that present the childhood daydream and show the fantastical isotopies, determinants of the values ​​inserted in the discourse in the light of the discursive semiotics. The problem is that of making sense, under the aspect of perception and emotion, arising from fantasy, in which it is possible to suppose that the fantasy aspect cooperates with the actions of the subject of the statement, leading him to the dazzle of the things of the world and received by the enunciatee / reader.