As versões de Numa e a ninfa e o intermediário Aventuras do Dr. Bogóloff: palco de exibição literária do escritor Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto

Abstract

Numa e a ninfa, a novel from the pre-modernist writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto, was published in 1915, and its basis was the namesake short story “Numa e a ninfa” and Aventuras do Dr. Bogóloff, published in 1911 and 1912, respectively. This thesis was developed under different views that, however, interrelate with each other: the first view, this research’s basis, is related to the transtextuality theory by Gérard Genette: Numa e a ninfa, the novel, is a hypertext, and the others “Numa e a ninfa”, the short story, and Aventuras do Dr. Bogóloff, the chronicle, are both hypotexts. Both the source texts and the target text allowed the use of the social-political context in the beginning of the Republic, which has the nature of complaint in the stage of the literary display. Another view, not the least, has beheld the New Criticism theory, which evaluates the narrative factors, confirming the importance of researching a literary text beneath the perspective of its structure. Both analysis are additional and show Lima Barreto's genuine writing in the beginning of the twentieth century.