Imagens apocalípticas e a simbologia do fogo e da água em Os Transparentes, de Ondjaki

Abstract

This paper aims to create a possible panorama of the apocalyptical images on the novel Os transparentes (2013), from the Angolan author Ondjaki, based on the theory of archetypes from Northrop Frye, present on the book Anatomy of criticism (1957), as well as analyze how the symbols of fire and water are present through the narrative and their relation with the characters based on Jean Chevalier and Arthur Gheerbrant’s Symbols Dictionary (1999), aiming to undo the negative image given to the supposed apocalypse reported on the end of the book. This essay is divided in a theoretical chapter, in which we will approach the theory of archetypes from Frye, focused on the apocalyptic images, as so as symbologies of fire and water in accordance with their respective entries in Chevalier & Gheerbrant’s Symbols Dictionary. Thereafter, we analyze the relations between characters and symbols of fire and water, besides the presence of apocalyptical images through the narrative. Finally, we make some considerations about the results of this analysis.