Humanismo e ironia nos contos de Luiz Vilela

Abstract

The search in this Dissertation focuses on Luiz Vilela’s fictional tale area, with the aim to get answers for questions about structures that make up this kind of narrative. In a first moment, it was used Narrative Theory, in order to analyze how is this tale structured. For that, an historical retrospective was done from the beginning till contemporary times. Structural elements present in its evolution were empathized, in order to identify Luiz Vilela’s tale production characteristics. Further, it was reflected on the possible existential visions which configure basic elements in this author’s work. Some dialogical theories were searched, mainly from Philosophy postulates, which is a fundamental aspect in Vilela’s tales. Finally, in the corpus analysis, a thematic inter-relationship was contextualized to characters composition, in order to evaluate conflicts and negative feelings showed by them: pessimism, dissatisfaction, discomfort which can be translated as existential malaise.