Luto e melancolia: no percurso dos enigmas de A noite escura e mais eu, de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

This study analyses bereavement and melancholia feeling as thematic elements in Lygia Fagundes Telles´s book, A noite escura e mais eu (2009). In this research, we sought to identify death and loneliness representations in some tales of this work. The narrative fiction of chosen tales instigates the unusual and may pervade the social and individual problems that are found in life. The narratives tension brands fortune games that are related to the perception about death and loneliness. This study aims therefore to identify, in this literary production, psychological issues surrounding bereavement and melancholy phenomenon - riddles of life – that the human being seeks to discover. The tales "Boa noite, Maria", "A rosa verde" and "Uma branca sombra pálida", selected for the study reveal reflections on human existence, remarkable feature in Lygia Fagundes Telles´ work. The writer seems to portray, in this collection, through the characters, everyday elements that allow the reader existential questioning and (re) organization of life and society values. Her writings focus on particular moments of life of certain actors who, when in narrative moments, a reality dramatic perception or subjective revelations are brought to consciousness. This process leads the characters to pain and lucidity. The research lets highlight that bereavement and melancholia phenomena are veiled in a cloud of uncertainty that require further development not searching for certainties, but rather in search of understanding, or at least acceptance. Trying to decipher the riddles of life with the look on human insecurities was a challenge.