As poéticas da arbitrariedade em O caso Morel, de Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

In this essay, we will analyze the symbolical meanings of some little fragments which are responsible to break the causality development throughout different moments found in Rubem Fonseca´s O caso Morel (1973). For instance, this narrative procedure must be understood not only as aesthetical ruptures related to contributions promoted by vanguard historical movements raised in the beginning of 20th century and developed in the next decades, but meanly also according to the functions came from the articulations among form and matter present in the diegesis. As a consequence, we will discuss the poetics about the representation of arbitrariness observed in that novel. So our analysis presents these aims: discuss the vanguard historical movements´ radical questionings to traditional organic artwork paradigm; verify how these questionings are configured as compositional procedure in the respective literary text; analyze the meaning effects of such non-causal pieces observing the relations between formal and material aspects perceived in the intrigue. Otherwise, our work methodology is based on textual immanence, which means that this analytical study is developed in respect to the delimitations demonstrated by the artistic production under appreciation. Finally, the theoretical and critical basis of our investigations are supported on contributions of authors like Aristotle (1993), Bürger (2008), Sanguineti (1972), Candido (1989), Silva (1996) and Freitas (2012).