A palavra-bolha : um estudo do conto de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

Two are the main viewpoints through which Lygia Fagundes Telles s short story is analysed in this paper: her narrator and her writing techniques. Concerning the former, we look into similarities between hers and Machado de Assis s narrator and examine the innovation Lygia has brought. The starting point for Lygia Fagundes Telles s narrator s analysis is Missa do Galo: variações sobre o mesmo tema (1977), a short story she wrote based on Machado de Assis s original Missa do Galo ( Midnight Mass ). In relation to Lygia Fagundes Telles s writing itself, we examine the techniques which result in what we here call the bubble-word , a way of writing whose main aspect is lightness, even in stories in which there is the traumatic element, and, through this bubble-word technique, we try to pinpoint the kind of realism present in Lygia Fagundes Telles s short story. The term bubble-word has been taken from a Lygia Fagundes Telles s short story called The structure of the soap bubble ( A estrutura da bolha de sabão ). For our objective of examining the bubble-word - i.e. Lygia Fagundes Telles s writing techniques - to be met, our study has been divided into four thematic groups, in which we have inserted and analysed the chosen short stories as samples