"O grande gatsby": uma leitura à luz da antropologia literária

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a reading of the book ―The Great Gatsby‖, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and published in 1925, through the eyes of Literary Antropology, theory developed by the German literary theoretician Wolfgang Iser. For this purpose, it was necessary, as specific objectives, to present concepts of the Aesthetic Response theory, precursor of the Literary Antropology, which was developed as a complement of the former, as well as mapping the aesthetic experience of the author of this work when in contact with the novel, using, for this, concepts of the theories explained above. Thus, in the first chapter, after the introduction, the Aesthetic Response theory is presented, with its concepts (gaps, negation,recursive looping, break in good continuation, theme and horizon) as well as the Literary Antropology. In the second chapter, with the presentation of the plot, ―The Great Gatsby‖ is mapped, descriptively. In the last chapter maps created by the author of this work, based on her reading of the book, are presented, adopting the first of four perspectives (narrator, reader, plot and fictive reader) to demonstrate, microscopically, the experience of reading for this analyst. In the conclusion, the importance of understanding the aesthetic experience is emphasized, for it helps to make readers more conscious in the search for literary challenges, engaging on a truly emancipatory reading, and not only in its enjoyment aspects. This fact, consequently, shows the recognition of the work of literarature teachers as an important work, for presenting a necessary subject, motivating a plain life, for according to Iser‘s approach, fictionalising is a human necessity and not only dilettantism.