Tempo e espaço na prosa-poética Vermelho Amargo, de Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós

Abstract

Vermelho Amargo, work by the contemporary writer from Minas Gerais, Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós, published in 2011, is rooted in the theme of the memory of his childhood, suggesting a reflection on the characteristics of the time and the location of these memories. The narrative is set up as poetic prose, written in the first person, presenting the story of a narrator-character who, in his maturity, revisits the significant places of his childhood and recreates the sensations experienced in a childhood marked by the lack of love. The plot has a non-linear timing, composed of fragments of scenes of the everyday life. Vermelho Amargo is a text marked by the spaces inhabited in the childhood and, more specifically, in the restricted space of the birthplace for characters involved in this universe, internalized in their anxieties and aspirations. As a result of these particularities of the work, the indefinite time of the childhood and the strength of the childhood home, it was chosen to focus this study on the analysis of the narrative elements, time and space. Among the theoretical sources that give support to this research, are the considerations of Gaston Bachelard and the assumptions of Walter Benjamin, present throughout the study. Compartments of sweetness, sorrow, secrets, discoveries converge on the textual architecture where memories transit and spectra from the past and torments from the present are hidden.