A vocação fantasma dos navios: Subjetividade e espaço urbano no romance de Ronaldo Costa Fernandes. Issue 4 (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lima, Rogério
• Is Part Of: Romance quarterly. Volume 63:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 200
• Page End: 208
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: Literary space -- military dictatorship -- subjectivity -- urban space; Romance literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Spanish literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Romance philology -- Periodicals; 840.905
• DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2016.1209379
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0883-1157

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article analyzes the novel Um homem é muito pouco by Ronaldo Costa Fernandes in order to examine the representation of subjectivity of the four characters who narrate different sections of the novel; the importance of the description of the urban spaces in the narrative; and the integration of literary reference as a form of narrative development. The article also highlights memory as a most important element in the narrative—specifically, the recollections by the four narrators-characters of situations experienced during the 1964–1985 Brazilian civic-military dictatorship.