Inventar o mapa: a sintaxe da fuga de Carol Rodrigues em Sem vista para o mar

Abstract

The present study proposes an analysis of Carol Rodrigues’ work Sem vista para o mar (2014), considering the recurrence in the work of an atmosphere of escape, both in the theme of the short stories and in the elliptical and fragmented syntax of Carol Rodrigues. The figurative sense of transience and transitivity, the representation of spaces and the design of a literary map spanning the entire work are the main elements to be considered in the making of this work. The research on contemporary Brazilian literature, especially on the hybridity and values sought in the prose genre in the present, is based on studies by Leyla Perrone-Moisés (1990; 2016), Beatriz Resende (2008), and Karl Erik Schøllhammer (2011). Similarly, the analytical contributions of Antonio Candido (1963; 1990; 1992), Umberto Eco (1963; 1994) and Ricardo Piglia (2006) concerning literary studies, fictional characters and the active relationship between writer and reader in the interpretative composition of the literary work are important for the present reading. From the cultural perspectives of the areas of cartography and geographic studies, this work is supported by the theories of Michel Foucault (2013) on the representation of heterotopias, and of Jörn Seemann (2012) about mapping studies in light of humanistic and cultural geography. Finally, an analysis is presented here of how the fictional space of Sem vista para o mar is seen as a place of transit, a space of escape and oblivion, in which the sea is invariably regarded as an object of desire. The fragmented narrative mode and the scarcity of punctuation, in search of a certain rhythm, raise these absences at the same time that the characters of Carol Rodrigues hold the hope of reaching a somewhere wich, all times, appears to be unrealizable.