Labirintos urbanos: imagem poética na cidade medusada nos contos Domingo longo e Use a passagem subterrânea, de Lêdo Ivo

Abstract

The transformations that emerged in society from the late nineteenth century to the presente day culminated in the configuration of a disjointed world, with questions and uncertainties that ascend in the subjects a displaced and disfigured look on their own space. In literature, these metamorphoses extend to the hybrid composition of literary genres, characters, and poetic and narrative spaces. Thereby, the aim of this course work is to analyze the representation of urban space in the short stories Domingo longo and Use a passagem subterrânea, by Alagoas writer Lêdo Ivo (1984), thinking the poetic image of the city as na aesthetic effect of dualities that fuses light and shadow. So, we built a methodological path based on the intersection of theoretical texts with the literary text, just as we walked over the field of studies on literature, society and culture. Thus, our research on the fictional narratives of Lêdo Ivo shows that the process of artistic and poetic creation of the city is established as an act of resistance and transgression, because in the transfiguring hands of the author of Ninho de cobras the city is erected with luminous material and imposing, a metaphor of the poetic Word itself. To carry out this research, we evoke the theoretical and literary studies of authors such as: Bachelard (1989), Bosi (2000), Cortázar (2006), Dimas (1987), Eagleton (2002), Gomes (2000, 2004, 2008), Iser (2002), Lins (1976), Paz (1982), Rolnik (1995), Silva (2015).