Jardins e Riachinhos : figuração imaginária das vidas de Rosa

Abstract

This work aims at studying the short stories which constitutes the collection Jardins e Riachinhos , from the book Ave, Palavra posthumous work by João Guimarães Rosa. In such texts, archetype images of the gardens and rivers are analyzed according to Jung s concept of archetype, which establishes an indispensable correlation with the notion of collective unconscious. The concept of archetype indicates the existence of symbolic forms in the human psique, present all the time and everywhere. The images presented in the work of the great writer and poet are built around a basic orientation, constituted by emotions and feelings proper from a culture, as well as from a whole individual and collective experience. The gardens and the rivers are archetype images that symbolize the desires, the necessities and the anguish of the human being since the beginning of times. Thus, we were guided by the theory of Gilbert Durand, who proposes an imaginary anthropology aiming at combining the totality of symbolic motivations based on his methodology, which establishes the relationship between the imaginary and the literature.