Diálogos e tensões compositivas em contos de James Joyce e Luiz Vilela

Abstract

This research aims to execute critical and reflective associations about the construction of characteristics and tension procedures in selected short story productions by James Joyce and Luiz Vilela. To this end, the work seeks to establish dialogues between Joyce and Vilela with universal storytelling (Piglia, 2004). Highlighting transformative utilizations of compositional proposals by Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, and Ernest Hemingway, the research focuses on the comprehension and examination of the short stories “Eveline” and “The dead” by James Joyce (2012), and “Françoise” and “Os mortos que não morreram” by Luiz Vilela (1999), mainly in light of capturing an epiphany, wherein the characters undergo transformations and, as a result, are revealed to the reader. In this scope, the study will feature contributions provided by Paulo Vizioli regarding epiphanic elaboration (a remarkable procedure in Joyce's short stories), structured in the three phases of aesthetic apprehension: “integrity, harmony, and illumination” (Vizioli, 1991). This guideline, in reflecting the intertextualities present in Vilela’s short stories, also punctuates certain transformations of Joycean proposals carried out by the storyteller from Minas Gerais under a comparatist perspective. On the other hand, it must similarly observe the philosophical extension in the characters' constitution, such as the alternation between a skeptical tendency in the narrator and the urgency of social interaction present in the authors' writings.