Englsh The changing meanings in “O irmão alemão”, by Chico Buarque

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Abstract

 

The present work aims to present a critical reading of novel O irmão alemão by Chico Buarque, in order to analyze it as a narrative composition that articulates an ambiguous literaty representation between its mimetic referents of a historical-social reality and their fictionalization indexes of that same reality from the narrador-protagonist’s account of the search for his supposed Jewish brother who disappeared in the context of a Nazi Germany. From this, we move on to the proper analysis of the novel in question, in order to highlight the changing modulation in the structure of its meanings, which prevents the work from being appreciated through a single model of literary writing. It is precisely the strained relationship between its strata of meaning that allows levels of interpretation and reading for the decoding of the novel. Thus, we understand that the universe of the narrated facts is the most important in the discursive articulation of the narrative. On the contrary, the experience oh interpretation, sensitive perception and imagination of historical reality from the perspective of a narrator-protagonist is what plurify the semantic and fictional expression of the narrative present in O irmão alemão, by Chico Buarque.

Keywords: Literature; Romance; Brazilian literature; Contemporary brazilian literature; Chico Buarque

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Anderson Chaves, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

Doutorando em Teoria da Literatura pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Bolsista CNPq. Autor da dissertação de mestrado “A experiência de narrar o desconhecido: o engenho da ficção no romance O irmão alemão, de Chico Buarque”.

Published

2020-12-16

How to Cite

Chaves, A. (2020). Englsh The changing meanings in “O irmão alemão”, by Chico Buarque. Abatirá - Revista De Ciências Humanas E Linguagens, 1(2), 526–556. Retrieved from https://revistas.uneb.br/index.php/abatira/article/view/9643