A voz narradora em “Mater dolorosa” de Olívia Sarmento

Abstract

This study analyzes the narrating voice of “Mater dolorosa”, present in A emparedada e outro contos (2015), a collection by Tocantins writer Olivia Sarmento. In dialogue with the narrator classifications developed by Tacca (1983) and Genette (1979) and with the proposal of narrative voices by Carmo Gomes (2014), the work seeks to outline the peculiarities and appeals of the aforementioned voice. For this purpose, the contribution of Sarmento's collection to Tocantins short stories is highlighted, as well as the singularities of “Mater Dolorosa” in the development of the theme of walling, already visited by Sophocles and Edgar Allan Poe, in foreign literature, and by Lygia Fagundes Telles and others writers, in Brazil. The uses, in “Mater Dolorosa”, of common resources, homodiegetic such as heterodiegetic narration, non-chronological time, memory and retrospections, are also evaluated