Bicho, rato e bípede: passado e presente diante do narrador em crise em Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the flow of consciousness from the narrator in the novel Angústia by Graciliano Ramos. To compose the research, used the qualitative method, of bibliographic nature, whose methodology was presented in the reading of the critical fortune of the author; in the relation of comparison between the construction of the narrator and the character Luís da Silva, because the narrative structure in the novel keeps him in the condition of protagonist, but Velho Graça's stylistic process ends up showing itself in the expansion of a stream of consciousness dominated by the narrator. From the reading of the work, the corpus was cut – the narrator's marks in the narrative – and the idea of confrontation between the past and the present, rural and urban spaces in the protagonist's actions was built. This path of research was only possible because the gracilian aesthetic language (re)discuss the place of the Romance de 30, an aesthetic in which the novel in question is set in the breadth of the literary path that will define literature in Brazil in the 20th century. This research appropriated literature and society studies, based on studies by Brait (1985), Bueno (2006), Bosi (1985, 1992), Candido (2012) and Gancho (2002).