SAY NO, SAY: WHY IS IT TRUE LIFE OF BOGGY? DIZER/NÃO-DIZER: POR QUE É VERDADEIRA A VIDA DE DOMINGOS XAVIER?

• Main Author: Heleno Godoy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Federal University of Goiás 1996-01-01
• Series: Signótica
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/sig/article/view/7345

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> <p class="western" style="background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-indent: 1.02cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; line-height: 0.36cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">Starting with a dichotomy already proposed for the study of Jose Luandino Vieira's </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">work, this essay is an analysis of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><em>The True Life of Domingos Xavier </em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">through another </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">dichotomy, that of "telling/not-telling". Starting with the ambiguity of the very title of the novella, whose adjective presupposes its opposite, the essay wants to lay bare the way the characters in the "musseque". learning that Domingos died without denouncing them (not-</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">telling ). make him an Angolan mythical hero (telling). The essay tries to show how Luandino Vieira. redimensioning and/or restructuring these elements, creates his own </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">literature.</span></span></span></p><br><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> <p class="western" style="background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-indent: 1.02cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; line-height: 0.36cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Partindo de dicotomias já propostas sobre a obra de José Luandino Vieira, este ensaio analisa, em </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier, </em></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">uma outra: "dizer não-dizer"" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Partindo da ambigüidade do próprio título da novela, cujo adjetivo pressupõe seu oposto, o </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ensaio quer mostrar o modo como as personagens do musseque. sabendo que Domingos morreu sem delatá-los (não-dizer). transformam-no em mítico herói angolano (dizer). O ensaio quer mostrar, ainda, como Luandino Vieira, redimensionando/reestruturando tais </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">elementos, cria sua literatura.</span></span></p>