O antropófago mineiro : um estudo sobre a ficção de Luiz Vilela

Abstract

This essay examines the degrees of intertextual relationship between some works of fiction by Luiz Vilela that relate somehow to stories or novels by various English-speaking authors. To achieveour goalwe willcompare thefollowingnarrativesthat make upour corpus: Vilela’s tale"My eight years” [“Meus oito anos”] will be compared to Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Cask of Amontillado". The themes of "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Sea Change" by Ernest Hemingway can be found in "White on Red" [“Branco sobre vermelho”] and "Green Eyes" [“Olhos verdes”] by Vilela respectively. Vilela’s "Happiness" [“Felicidade”] is compared to Katherine Mansfield’s "Bliss", whereas his "The Dead Do not Die" [“Os mortos que não morreram”[ refers to James Joyce’s "The Dead." As a theoretical framework, we use the following works: Comparative Literature [Literatura comparada] by Sandra Nitrini, The Intertextuality [A intertextualidade] of Tiphaine Samoyault; Flowers Desk [Flores da escrivaninha], by Leyla Perrone Moisés, Thieves of Words ´[Ladrões de palavras] by Michel Schneider; Oswald Cannibal by Benedito Nunes, and the “Anthropophagous Manifest" [“Manifesto Antropófago”] by Oswald de Andrade. Here is our issues: I) How theEnglish language literature appear in Luiz Vilela’s fiction? ;II) to what extent is the resumption of other authors?; III) such intertextual allusions, quotations or references must- in this case- be classified as plagiarism? Our understanding is that, in light of our benchmark, the author Luiz Vilela resumes critically various narratives of English-language literature to build his work: it is therefore more than an author who relies on intertextual procedures; he is a writer rightfuly cannibal, performing in an exemplary manner such ideals of modernism in the Brasilian literature.