“Crônica de uma mulher assassinada”: a relação entre espaço e personagem na obra Crônica da Casa assassinada, de Lúcio Cardoso

Abstract

This study was designed to understand, through the work Crônica da Casa Assassinada, by Lúcio Cardoso, the links present in the narrative construction of the character and space categories in the modern novel, using the setting of the Meneses’ house and characterization by Nina. Thus, the observation of the transformations that took place and constitute the contemporary romanesque scope of the ninth and twentieth centuries, as well as the study of the behavior of the space and character elements and how they interact in the narrative was based. It was possible to identify a representation of the character Nina about the stagnant house in the psychological field of the characters and that occurs mainly in the lexical field of the text, narrated by them. This research has a qualitative and bibliographical character and was based on the studies of Rosenfeld (1969), Hauser (1998), Brayner (1979), Candido (2014), Brandão (2013), Humphrey (1976), Pankow (1988), Bachelard (1993), Brait (1985), among others. Based on the analysis, notes on the modern novel, its aesthetic characteristics and its context of origin, with the appearance of more intimate and psychological works as well as in Lúcio Cardoso, based on the interaction between Nina and the house in the descriptive process of the character-narrator consciousness. The research is divided in three parts, the first one corresponds to the considerations about the emergence of the novel and its configurations. Soon after, the theoretical framework about the narrative categories highlighted was considered. Finally, the elements of Lucio Cardoso's novel were analyzed in order to understand their affinities. Throughout the work it has been verified that modern narrative, in the light of the narrators' consciousness, opens up a range of possibilities in descriptive abstractions that can build clear bridges between categories, both through language and history.