O homem na voz dos bichos : o antropomorfismo em contos de Guimarães Rosa e Miguel Torga

Abstract

This paper presents, as a proposal, a comparative analysis of short stories by fictionists Guimarães Rosa and Miguel Torga, as from the portrayal of the humanized animal in some of their narratives. Through bibliographic research, we found expressive and unique portrayal of animals in the work of referred writers, dialoguing in several moments. It‘s our interest, thereby, to investigate in which way the animal provided with human features is represented in the narratives, as well as in which way the authors approach the relationship among animals, men and the world surrounding them, which, in the case of the referred material, is situated, physically and emblematically, mainly, in a rural setting. Our reading privileges the implications of the man-animal relationship in written works of the referred authors, implications that are based, mostly, in alternative knowledge, recognitions and dichotomies. The selected corpus are the books ―Bichos‖, by Torga, and ―Ave, Palavra‖, ―Sagarana‖, and ―Estas estórias‖ by Guimarães Rosa. It is noteworthy, as well, that we took as reading operators the notion of anthropomorphism and the resource of comparative analysis.