“Nos refolhos de minha memória ou no fundo do meu tinteiro” - análise da carta enquanto artifício de estilo e de construção dos romances alencarianos: Cinco minutos, A viuvinha, Lucíola e Diva

Abstract

The basic premise of this dissertation is to investigate the letter as a device of style and construction of Alencar’s novels: Cinco Minutos, A Viuvinha, Lucíola and Diva. The arguments will be constructed with the help of the authors’ intellectual authority, as: Antonio Candido, Marisa Lajolo, Maria Cecília Boechat, Marcus Vinicius Soares, Patricia Regina Pereira, among others. Observation data comes from the study of western epistolary novels from 17th and 18h century that influenced brazilian literature, the technique of verisimilitude, the observing the characteristics of the 19th century bourgeois society, the study of the authorship and the ficcional game, beyound the voyeurism. It is concluded, therefore, that a very commom format in Alencar’s production, the letter configures itself as na articulating element of the two blocks of novels described above, from sender and recipient: Cinco Minutos and A Viuvinha, Lucíola and Diva. In addiction, the epistolary configuration brings a new meaning of understanding to the novels, which should be analysed as particular and a strategic data