Quando as palavras pintam cenas: um estudo da construção de imagens na obra Crônica da casa assassinada, de Lúcio Cardoso

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the narrative construction in Crônica da casa assassinada, by Lucio Cardoso, by investigating the pictorial scenes which are built up by the filling in of textual blanks and the interpretation of those fictional elements which help the novel to bring out a reader´s interaction with its poetic language. In this sense, the work should be geared to observing of the image-formation process, resulting from the interaction between the dynamic movement of the environments in the narrative, with the characters´ conflicts, taking into account the social role played by the Chácara dos Meneses property. The narrative attributes which feature the novel as a structure fostering various interpretative possibilities should be observed. The analysis shall be carried out in light of Theory of äesthetic response, by Wolfgang Iser as well as other theories and other critics´ opinions, which have been instrumental in the research I undertook to carry out