Macunaíma: o prazer lúdico do texto

Rita Olivieri-Godet

doi:10.12957/matraga.2022.66086

Macunaíma: the playful pleasure of the text

Authors

Rita Olivieri-Godet Université Rennes 2 / Institut Universitaire de France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.66086

Keywords:

Macunaíma, Mario de Andrade, Narrative analysis, Popular comic.

Abstract

The article analyzes the importance of the ludic element in the composition of the emblematic novel of Brazilian modernism, Macunaíma the hero without a character (1928), by Mário de Andrade. It develops the argument according to which the comic element confers coherence and verisimilitude to the text, participating in all levels of the work, from its origins – raw material rewritten and reinvented by Mário de Andrade –, through the organization of the narrative syntagm, until the characterization of the hero, which belongs to the symbolic field of the novel. It is also the ludic element that makes Macunaíma’s ambivalent laughter possible, registering in the text the dialectic of the serious-comic. The perspective adopted is based on the methodology of narrative analysis by Gérard Genette and on the essays by Johan Huizinga and Mikhail Bakhtin who explore, respectively, the presence of the ludic in myth and poetry and the ambivalence of popular comics, dialoguing with the critical fortune of the novel.

Author Biography

Rita Olivieri-Godet, Université Rennes 2 / Institut Universitaire de France

É Doutora em Teoria literária e literatura comparada pela USP, pós-doutora em literatura com- parada pela Université Paris 10, Professora titular emérita de literatura brasileira da Université Rennes 2 e membro honorário do Institut Universitaire de France. Dirigiu o Departamento de Português da Université Rennes 2. Membro permanente da ERIMIT – Equipe de Recherches Interlangues “Mémoires, Territoires et Identités” e do GT “Relações literárias interamericanas” da ANPOLL. Professora convidada da Universidade de Bordeaux 3, da UEFS-Bahia, da Université du Québec à Montréal. É autora de várias obras e artigos, no campo dos estudos críticos literá- rios, publicados na França, no Brasil, na Bélgica e no Canadá.

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Published

2022-11-08

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Olivieri-Godet, R. (2022). Macunaíma: the playful pleasure of the text. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 29(57), 455–469. https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.66086

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Vol. 29 No. 57 (2022): After before 22: modernisms in a vanishing point

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