CHRONICLES AND TALES ON THE BORDERS OF NARRATIVE GENRES: FIXATIONS, TERRITORIES AND DIFFUSIONS
Narrative Genres, Portuguese Language Writers Event, Chronicle, Tale.
This research deals with two narrative genres: the short story and the chronicle. Given the diffuse boundaries between these two textual categories, the objective of this investigation is to expand the discussions around the shelter territories of the tale and the chronicle, without assuming, however, that definitive boundaries can be established. It starts from the hypothesis that, somehow, the perception of the event is fundamental for a certain fixation of territories: it is assumed that the event impacts more on the characters, while, in the chronicle, the event impacts more on the narrator. With such premises, the research develops with specific studies on the chronicle and on the short story, highlighting writers who evidenced these genres, in Portuguese, with greater emphasis on Brazilian authors. Chronicles and short stories by Mia Couto, from Mozambique, Florbela Espanca and Saramago, from Portugal, and, from Brazil, Luís Fernando Veríssimo, Rubem Braga, Marina Colasanti, Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector and Conceição Evaristo will be analyzed. In the theoretical contribution, there are some books and authors that deal with the chronicle and the short story, as literary genres, and books and authors that deal with theoretical aspects of narratives, including: Jornalismo opinativo (2003), by José Marques de Melo, The Genres of Discourse (2016) and Questions of Literature and Aesthetics (1993), by Mikhail Bakhtin, Magic and Technique, Art and Politics (1994), by Walter Benjamin, Simple Forms (1976), by André Jolles, Formas breves (2004), by Ricardo Piglia, Contemporary Brazilian Chronicle (2005), by Manuel da Costa Pinto and Decálogo do perfect short story (2009), by Horácio Quiroga.