Carlos Nejar e Matusalém de Flores: intertextualidade com Dom Quixote e com o texto bíblico

Abstract

One of the several ways to understand the Brazilian literature is probing the dialogues that establish itself between the texts. The possibilities of dialogues or “loans” between different texts and knowledge areas are recurrent of the literary productivity, but, in the contemporaneity, acquire a new tonus, standing out critics of its time. Carlos Nejar, an established gaucho writer, creates a peculiar critic of his time by entering the paths of intertextuality with Dom Quixote and with the Bible in Matusalém de Flores, his most recent novel that which was published in 2014. Thus, analyze the intertextuality in this play will be like listen to what extent the literature can be a committed act, this is, critic and of celebration of textuality, once that she can reinvent the new through the old, rewriting and re-registering the word through time. We will see that Nejar‟s literature accomplishes a critic and creative dialogue with classical texts of the Western culture because it concretizes new ways of contemporary productivity while (re) creates and reads the classic under the contemporary and the sacred under the daily. Thereby, our study proposal will be centered in the search of the correspondences between the main nejarian characters in the novel in question and the main characters of Dom Quixote and some biblical texts. Besides that, we will compare some thematic and paradigmatic axes of the three plays, as well as analyzes other similarities, that goes from the cover composition of Matusalém de Flores, and Dom Quixote until the internal organization of these two books. Moreover, we will mark the similarities and differences between the nejarian composition and the classics already mentioned in the search to understand how the author (re) invents or (re) creates the old.