O projeto poético inscrito nos contos de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

This research presented in this dissertation was guided by two questions: (1) to what extent does the oral tradition, as part of the narrative modality, exist in the short stories of Milton Hatoum? (2) which compositional elements can we identify as being responsible for the construction of the author s poetic project? Of the hypotheses formulated for these subjects, we theorized that the storyteller s voice is used as a way to present the oral tradition in the narrative compositions; and we believe that the regionalism founded on memory and imagination is a signature of Milton Hatoum s poetic project. We also investigated the poetic nature presented in the texts, emphasizing links between the lyrical and the prosaic. We made a study of the memory and the imaginary that appear in the texts, including the perspective of the production of phantasm and the concept of dialogism. For the corpus, we selected some of the short stories that comprise the collection A cidade ilhada (2009): Varandas da Eva ; Uma estrangeira da nossa rua ; Uma carta de Bancroft ; Dois poetas da província ; O adeus do comandante ; Manaus, Bombaim, Palo Alto ; Dois tempos ; A casa ilhada ; A natureza ri da cultura ; and Encontros na península . In the closing remarks, we revisited the developing elements of Milton Hatoum's poetic project, which were highlighted throughout the dissertation, based on the critical reading of the selected short stories