A geografia literária de Lêdo Ivo: a cidade nos romances As alianças e Ninho de cobras

Abstract

This study analyses the city representation in the novels As alianças and Ninho de cobras from Lêdo Ivo. It introduces that the relations from several cultural stratus are seen in the composition of the novels. This narratives show that there is also focus on the city image, its meanings and unfolding in the contemporary world. This work uses the bibliographical study and an analyses of qualitative nature, taking influence in the cultural base studies done by Candido (1972; 2000), Bosi (2002); Hall (1997a; 1997b), Rama (1985) and Gomes (1994; 2004a; 2004b) and representation studies done by Lima (2003) and Danto (2005). The analysis shows that both novels agree, in literary form, what these authors discuss in their book. Concerning the city and its discontinuous aspect, descriptive elements were detected in the novels in which choices for negative categories are unchained, changing narrator, characters and spaces into negative tone representations. Such negativity, as a novel representation, instars in the post-naturalism, according to Bosi (2002), a pregnant negativity that it s generated by an empty consciousness from the author.