THE DELIRIUM OF SPACE, IN THE BOOK OF JOHN BY ROSÁRIO FUSCO
Marta Dantas | 02-15
Abstract: The Book of John (O livro de João), published in 1944, is the second
fictional work by the Brazilian author Rosario Fusco. John is the protagonist of
the story. He narrates from a first-person point of view the reminiscences of a
certain time of his life marked by unusual facts. John is accused of being the
lover of an unknown woman, Carmélia, by her husband. He attempts to save
himself by telling stories and realizes that there are correspondences between
the images created by his imagination and his real situation. No accident, John
initiates the narrative of his recollections describing the spaces of his home and
his workplace. In the Fusquian fiction, the spaces are very important and
requires a topoanalysis. Therefore, we intend to study the space of the
novel The Book of John comparing it to surrealist ideas and conceptions, since
this analysis reveals in the Fusquian prose, among other things, the
predomination of the urban spaces, the relation between certain spaces and the
psychological condition of the protagonist, the irruption of randomness, the
existence of correspondences between the internal (subjective) and external
(objective) space, all of which are common features of the surrealist narrative.
Keywords: Rosário Fusco; Brazilian literature; space; surrealism.
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