Da Vila Rica histórica à mítica

construção do espaço narrativo em Os sinos da agonia, de Autran Dourado

Abstract

In the novel Os sinos da agonia, by Autran Dourado, the journeys of Januário, Malvina and Gaspar, who are involved in a love triangle, are narrated. The characters, facing issues related to death, reflect the decadent atmosphere in the city of Vila Rica, which is experiencing the last grasps of the colonial gold economy. In the unravelling of this web, the narrator defies time and uses the narrated events and the historical background to reach a mythical dimension and reflect upon great universal themes. Our aim with this article, is to verify the way in which the narrative space is built by this narrator, who uses the historical to transcend the mythical. For this, we will take as main the theoretical basis the postulates of Gérard de Génette ([197-]), in Discurso da narrativa and those of Osman Lins (1976), in Lima Barreto e o espaço romanesco.