A personagem no labirinto da cidade puída em “Angústia”, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

This research takes a look at the character in the novel Angústia, by Graciliano Ramos, having as its object of investigation the representation of the city of Maceió, the narrative space of the literary work. In this proposal, the construction of the character and the urban language explored by the first-person narrator, which manifests itself from this place, are considered. So, this research proposes to discuss the image of the city in relation to the vision that the protagonist narrator constructs of himself in this space. Thus, it can be said, as Gomes (2001) states, that the city is shaped like a labyrinth, in which paths intersect and, at the same time, hide an exit, in which Luís da Silva, character, narrator and protagonist, wants to find a way out, but the city imposes its own language and brings the character closer to the image of the past in the stream of consciousness, as Candido (2006) tells us. To this end, a qualitative theoretical-critical methodology of a bibliographic nature was used. In this way, we seek to exemplify how the city is constructed in the atmosphere of the narrative from the narrator's perspective, as well as to bring the city as a representative and primordial category for the construction of the novel. For the development, the concepts of authors such as Dimas (1985), Gomes (1994), Silva (2007) and Rolnik (1995) were used to discuss space and city as categories of analysis; as well as Hall (2003) to provide an angle on the idea of identities and cultural strata in processes of displacement in modernity. Certain theorists such as Candido (2006), Bueno (2006) and Augé (2012) also illuminated the paths for the development of discussions on authorship and space of/in the work.