Orality marks in “the woman who ate the lover”, by Bernardo Élis

Abstract

This study intends to analyse the short story “A mulher que comeu o amante”, by Bernardo Élis. The employed resource concerns to orality as inherent sign of the narrator and character´s speech, each of them in its own manner. The article inquires therefore after how the brazilian inland oral tradition is depicted in a sort of text in which the discursive ambiguity is taken as a valid expression, in such wise as to link, throughout dialogism, a regional theme to the universal human subject. The methodological way to go is investigating some components of the chosen short story through an oral nature reformulated as artistic artefact. For this, authors such as Mikhail Bakhtin (1981), Walter Benjamin (1979), Irene Machado (1995), among others, appear relevant.