O contraponto entre a realidade e a ficção: a velhice na perspectiva de Sr. Silva em A máquina de fazer espanhóis, de Valter Hugo Mãe

Abstract

This work has as main purpose to make a comparative and interpretive analysis of how old age and death are understood both in reality and in the work protagonist's perspective The maker Spanish (2011), the Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Mother. In the book , old age and death are recurring themes, especially if we take into consideration that his narrative develops in an asylum, where we met the narrator-character Antonio Jorge da Silva, a widower elder. Thus, the unfolding of the plot would allow an analytical exercise of likelihood ratios permeating it, focusing on the threshold established between the literary fiction and the real context. In our study, it first made the comparison between reality and fiction, highlighting the issue of likelihood, then discuss the themes of old age and death, establishing relations of similarity and / or difference between them through the character's point of view main novel that is our corpus. To support our work, we rely primarily theoretical notes Eco (1994), Moses (2004), mucida (2009) Debert (2012) and Loureiro (1998).