A presença do duplo na produção da incerteza em contos de Rubens Figueiredo

Abstract

Through the analysis of short stories by Rubens Figueiredo, this work proposes to apply the concept of literary double to all narrative elements: time, space, narrator, characters and plot. It is noted that, in several studies on the subject, the presence of the double is analyzed from the perspective of processes that occur only with characters. However, starting from the concept of the double as a split, mirroring or replication of a being, it is possible to take it, beyond the split of characters, as a discursive strategy that generates a dubious discourse and, therefore, uncertainties. In turn, this strategy, which reverberates in all narrative elements, entails multiple and contradictory discourses, which guarantees narratives full of uncertainty. The reader of the analyzed stories will always be faced with several discourses, which oppose each other and make it impossible to follow a single path. Thus, the development of doubles acts as an important discursive strategy that Rubens Figueiredo uses to generate, in his narratives, the strange character that is peculiar to them