A ordem do olhar: aspectos da montagem cinematográfica em “Vidas secas”

Abstract

This study’s main purpose is to analyze the novel Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos observing how intermedia references between literature and cinema are constructed in the novel through the use of a narrative technique that evokes aspects of the cinematographic editing. This composition strategy is tied to the process of representing the other (the family of Fabiano and Sinha Vitória) unrolled in the novel and marked by the articulation of a discursive game that is characterized by the combination of indirect, direct and indirectly free speeches in an set built through the voice of a narrator in the third person. The effect acchieved with this strategy is the emergence of a narrator who gets close enough to the characters to introduce them to the reader without, however, speaking directly for them or taking their place in the fictional world. Thus, the reader is able to get closer to the book's protagonists and in an otherness exercise practice see the world that surrounds them from their point of view. In this context, the editing in Vidas Secas arise as a necessary compositional strategy so that the narrator and characters’ voices can be alternated throughout the composition without its narrative fabric breaking.