Da nascente ao deságue : o percurso constante entre o “Sim” e o “Não” em Morte e vida Severina, de João Cabral de Melo Neto

Abstract

The present work analyzed Morte e Vida Severina, by João Cabral de Melo Neto, focusing on the construction of the narrator's identity, based on elements of refusal. The corpus of this research was composed of the poem Morte e Vida Severina, whose first publication is dated 1955, with the 2007 version as the corpus itself (1st edition, Objetiva). As a theoretical foundation, the research contributions made by Candido (2009); Brait (2017), Bosi (1989), and Guiraud (1956) will be used. Thus, the approach of this research involves social-literary-identity construction of the characters in different plots, as well as a literary analysis according to the elements of refusal and acceptance. In the course of this analysis, it was concluded that the identity of Vida Severina goes far beyond the general idea of miserability and social abandonment that hangs over the work - it gains a formal-constructive aspect from refusal and acceptance, which serve perfectly as an object of identity and affirmations of the narrative focus.