O silêncio que grita: a ação interna na literatura

Abstract

The stream of consciousness (which is used in literary narratives from the beginning of the twentieth century) causes ruptures in the way the narrative action was conceived, since the concept of action undergoes changes, it then becomes exercised internally, subjectively, focuses on the level of mental processes. The literary theory developed in the West, in its hegemonic way, does not privilege action as an effective mechanism of the stream of consciousness. The present work has as hypothesis the exercise of the internal action in the selected stories, being this a category consolidated from the technique of the stream of consciousness. In addition to conceptualizing internal action in narratives, the thesis in development proposes to constitute a typology of this action and to concretely demonstrate different modes of internal action made possible by the narrative stream of consciousness. This research analyzes three short stories by the writer Caio Fernando Abreu. Namely, the tales analyzed are the following: "“Do outro lado da tarde”", present in the work “O ovo apunhalado” (1975); "Luz e Sombra", contained in the work “Morangos Mofados” (1982); and, “Blues without Ana”, that, in turn, is part of the work “Dragons” (1988); The writer makes use, in the three short stories, of the technique stream of consciousness, in various forms and in a different way from other writers. At the same time that it uses influences, it renews the ways of using this narrative format.