Cain's travels: a chronotopic analysis from José Saramago's novel
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2014.2.17905Keywords:
Chronotope, Space, Time, Transgression, Cain.Abstract
This paper aims to do a chronotope analysis of Cain’s novel (2009) written by José Saramago, which is considered a rereading of Old Testament biblical episodes. The analyzed novel is structured upon the wanderings of the protagonist on his trips that occur through spatiotemporal transgressions. This paper intents to provide a reflection based on chronotope concept accordingly to Bakhtin (1998), that considers the inseparability of time and space categories. At the present study we suggest this time separation only to a methodological purpose. We have observed from the phenomena analysis the Cains’ displacement between realistic and imaginative spaces (BORGES FILHO, 2009) as well as between distinct times – other times – temporal transgressions, that the narrative structure is based on them (REIS; LOPES, 1988).Downloads
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