Quadros de vida, quadros de morte: falência e ressurreição nas obras de Tatiana Salem Levy

Abstract

This paper focuses on the works of fiction writer Tatiana Salem Levy. In the works studied, is remarkable the tendency life has to calamity, constantly heralded by natural disasters, pointing out to its inevitability. In contrast, there is also a restoring ability which comes from tiny cracks from the chaos described in the stories. In this tension, the characters lose their references and need to re-establish themselves in some way to feel again integrated, fulfilled with life. Another intriguing issue is the constant possibility of identifying these characters, since in most cases they do not have names and are unknown to the readers. It is difficult to establish the reason for this lack of identity, whether it was motivated by the loss, or loss only confirms the feeling of emptiness and lack of identity features striking. As the subject are full of gaps, the reality is absorbed into pieces, fragments collected and saved as an outline and vague ideal of reality to which they belong or believe to belong. These fragments are monuments of the allegorical significance that determine the passage of time and the decomposition of its elements to the detriment of the confirmation of durability of fixed identity. Writing thus becomes the ideal place to the replace the subjects into society, specially to the ones they believe to have lost. The objective of this work is to establish standards of behaviour from the actions of the characters through which they aim to rebuild their personalities. The structural pillars of my argument, are: losses, names, places and speeches.