THE ORDINARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE LITERARY STRETCH: THE EVENT IN THE NARRATIVES OF LUÍS FERNANDO VERÍSSIMO
Luís Fernando Veríssimo, Narrativas, Happening, Chronicle, Short Story.
This research in line with Literary Studies, of a qualitative nature, focuses on the issue of the event in short stories and chronicles by Luís Fernando Veríssimo. The aim of the investigation is to study more accurately the events that trigger the actions of short stories and chronicles by writers, from the perspective of the ordinary (everyday life) and the extraordinary (exception). The main object of analysis is a set of texts, published in different media, by Luís Fernando Veríssimo; for comparative purposes, the research eventually resorts to texts by other writers, storytellers or chroniclers. It starts from the hypothesis that some events of real life, due to their regularity or exceptionality, motivate the writing of short stories and chronicles with different themes, with emphasis, in some cases, on the movement of the characters; in other cases, the emphasis of the event in the narrative falls on the narrator himself. In the theoretical framework, 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, with emphasis on: Opinionated Journalism (2003), by José Marques de Melo, The Genders 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, Forms breves (2004), by Ricardo Piglia, and Decálogo do Perfeito short story (2009), by Horácio Quiroga.