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Denis Pereira Martins

A farmhouse, opulent, sober and somber on the banks of the River Paraíba. Eve of the abolition of slavery. Times of devastating yellow fever. A girl, full of balance and familiar peace, dies. But her presence remains, mobilizer, in the complexity of conflicts: the mother, hidden presence; the father, almighty and distant. Absent siblings. Eight women, their disenchantments and neurosis. The sister who arrives, hope of balance restore, solitary and complex personality, broaden the conflictive spaces and culminates in living with the decline of the family and the property. This dissertation aims to analyze the Cornelio Pennas novel The Dead Girl on the bias of death. Death is a kind of literary device and, accordingly, should be studied as an aesthetic procedure. The text starts with the preparation of essential accessories for the girl s burial, the funeral rite, which begins with the agony, coinciding with the initial phase of grief of the living. The early chapters of this lugubrious narrative bring descriptions of the characters frustrations, triggered by the death of the girl. However, the pain and the sense of loss are banned, are weaknesses and, therefore, are not allowed. It is the repressed mourning, followed by the changes of roles in the patriarchal family, by the sadness, the melancholy, the degradation. Here, space is extremely important for the construction of the fable, the Grotãos farm is seen as the articulation of the feelings of those who live there. The arrival of the older girl Carlota makes the other characters may be open "to the misfortunes of others". She becomes another woman, and the new power, which begins with her, is marked by fear and by the sense of threat they all feel.

Figurações da morte em "A menina morta" de Cornélio Penna

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