Guimarães Rosa: the transcendence of realism

Abstract

Rosa’s writing transcends Realism by indetermining the representations in the form. According to Hansen (2012) in Forma literária e crítica da lógica racionalista em Guimarães Rosa, Rosa’s literary fiction indetermines the representations in the form of a background that produces mystery. We point out some operations of indeterminacy in the short story Hiato, from Tutaméia: terceiras estórias. With a fiction of the form, Rosa intervenes in the universal literary field and also in the Brazilian. This paper points that, in the cultural formation of the reception, two points of Rosa’s intervention in the Brazilian literary field in which the predilection by Realism and the sacred imaginary live together. Rosa attends partially to the reception formed in the literate culture and inured to Realist representations. She extrapolates its expectations by encompassing, simultaneously, the sacred imaginary. Rosa intervenes in a historical project of adequacy of the imaginary to Realist patterns of representation. Universal literary fiction has as challenge producing the meaning of realities more and more complex with the tongue that, domesticated in representations, reiterates the places of language in the society of classes. Since XIX century, writers face the difficulty of proposing valid representations in a world of increasing diversity and the Brazilian literary field requires the representation of the national reality. The intervention of Rosa’s fiction in this project of representation covers the sacred imaginary of the reception which, inured to the form as method of formulating desire and practice in language, welcomes the effects of indeterminacy as mystery.