Mitos e arquétipos em O som e a fúria, de William Faulkner: ensaios

Abstract

In this work we analyse William Faulkner's novel The sound and the fury with the objective of meditating on the mythical structure which performs and holds a constant change of meaning of the story and the permanent dissolution found in all the narrative layers. To do that, we survey the main myths and archetypes that appear in the work and that are inverted or altered by the author with the intention of founding the creation of a modern narrative, specially in formal construction. Our main problem was the way to approach the novel, in which it is noticeable the use of an anti-Cartesian logic in the disposition of the elements: narrators, characters, time, space, archetypes, atmosphere. They seem to be subverted by a system organized through logic of bricolage, which leads us to ask: is that logic the organizational system of The sound and the fury? We made a dialogue with the studies on myth and literature (Dumézil, Meletínski, Frye), the conceptualizations of myth (Eliade, Vernant, Cassirer) and the relations between myth and bricolage (Lévi-Strauss), so as to understand better the technical and stylistic features present in the novel and how they appear as products of the logic of bricolage, encouraging the revitalization of certain myths and specifically the plantation myth, which legitimated the agrarian system of the South of the US. From our analysis we verify that the plenitude of the social dissolution of the South present in Faulkner's intrigue is only revealed when we observe the form and content of the mythical narrative which constitutes the novel