LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, ENUNCIATION AND AFFECTIVITY: AN ANALYSIS OF GUIMARÃES ROSA’S <i>CAMPO GERAL<i>

Abstract

Once aware of Guimarães Rosa’s plain conscience about how an author must explore the originality of the linguistic expression, by making it able to practise its power of acting on men, this paper has the intention of demonstrating how the language settles, through the description of the enunciative proceedings adopted by the author in his narrative Campo Geral, not as a mirror of the reality or as an instrument of representation of the facts, but as a form of action on the man himself. The idea is to identify the strategies adopted by the enunciator for the configuration of the affectivity that involves this discourse. In order to do so, the analysis of three dimensions of the narrative will be privileged: the tensive, the discursive and the textual ones.