Empty hands and flying birds: memory, invention and non-story in \Tutaméia: third stories\ by João Guimarães Rosa

Author(s)

Camila Rodrigues

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-03-09

Examining board members

Elias Thome Saliba; Stefan Wilhelm Bolle; Susana Kampff Lages

• Advisor: Elias Thome Saliba

Abstract

In 1967, João Guimarães Rosas Tutaméia: Terceiras Estórias was published. Defining this prose work as estória narrative form closer to the anecdote and opposed to the great historiographical narratives , Rosa challenges the concept of history from the beginning. In Tutaméia, the sertão mineiro is not merely a landscape of privations which could be better expressed by mythical discourse; in fact, it has its own history, told in Tutaméias extremely hermetic texts founded on memory and invention. This dissertation has departed from documental, philological and empirical research to give interpretation to the estória texts and to situate them in the context of sertão modernization. The aim of this research is to find a proper place for history in Rosas works. (AU)