THE TALE AS FORM OF TWO NARRATIVES IN THE TORTURAS DE AMOR COLLECTION

Abstract

To encounter the tales present in Torturas de amor, collection of texts written by northeastern writers, based on the Brega musical genre and organized by Bruno Gaudêncio, is to find several lyrical universes, with different representations of love. The narratives taken here, namely, “It is impossible to believe that I lost you”, by Roberto Menezes and “I break this
table today”, by Bráulio Tavares, however, they are not analyzed, at least as a priority, in the light of this fruitful thematic field that is love. Reading such narratives, as attractive as they are due to the cathartic content, also allows contact with the short story, considering the text as a process and as a structure, without, of course, disregarding the content, understanding them in an articulated way (cf. EAGLETON, 2011, p. 46). Thus, one of the possibilities of approaching the formal configuration of the story is that proposed by Piglia (2004), about the fact that, in the story, two narratives coexist, one explicit and the other more implicit, but both of great value for understanding of the genre. The stories discussed here present, based on their proposals, the structure defended by Piglia (2004). Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze the two narratives pointed out by the theorist quoted in two short stories from the collection Torturas de amor, which reached the editorial market in 2019 to add to the vast contemporary production of short stories. Hence the importance of being taken as an object of literary studies.