Open Access<b>Males da casa em "Lavoura Arcaica"</b><br>doi:10.5007/2175-7917.2011v16n1p99
Author(s) -
Fernanda Müller
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
anuário de literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-7917
pISSN - 1414-5235
DOI - 10.5007/2175-7917.2011v16n1p99
Subject(s) - immigration , art , space (punctuation) , humanities , art history , cartography , geography , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics
Observing the central hole of the house in Literature, also its registration in Toposforschung, I offer a reading of this space so present in the work Lavoura arcaica, by Raduan Nassar. For in such a way, I relate the house to the personages experiences and its around – the wood, the forest –, and establish a parallel with other books. Metaphors of the family, the values and the tradition, the designated house is space of comfort and protection, but equally of reclusion and repression, badly bigger because the house is mirror of deep and unsustainable familiar dramas, immigration and exile