Outras margens de sentido: a recepção do leitor em duas passagens rosianas

Abstract

The present research investigates the stories Sorôco, his mother, his daughter and The third bank of the river , by Guimarães Rosa, having as mainly focus the reader s role in take these literary texts in. In order to do this, it was constituted a theoretical methodology based on the studies of Wolfgang Iser and his theory about the implicit reader, on Hans Robert Jauss and his hermeneutic and the game of questions and answers, and Umberto Eco and his definitions about the textual non-saids. The analysis of these two stories from the book First Stories permitted to check how Guimarães Rosa s reader acts facing complex and enigmatic texts which deal with features like craziness and lack of communication, texts which get closer on these banks , on which the work of filling the textual void becomes a really complicated task for the implicit reader. It was realized through investigations that Rosa s reader ranges between be frustrated with the results of reading and be happy with the path followed by the characters in their ending. The idea defended by Jauss which says that in literary texts the reader participates on a questions/answers game be clever when analyzing these stories, since there are many questions done by this implicit reader for which the answers sometimes do not appear clearly. It is this inquisitive reader of Guimarães Rosa who is contemplated in this work.