O caçador, de Rinaldo de Fernandes: o viver o jogo e a experiência urbana da ocupação

Abstract

The aim of this article is to do a reading of the spatiality in the short-story “O caçador”, by Rinaldo de Fernandes, considered one of the great compositions of contemporary Brazilian literature. Due to the elapsed action dynamics in the universe of the hunter’s house, one of the main characters of the short-story, will constitute the leitmotiv of this text the construct of the urban experience of occupation. As a theoretical contribution the works O homem e a terra: natureza da realidade geográfica, from the geographer Eric Dardel; A poética do espaço, from the French phylosopher Gaston Bachelard and, abode all, Topofilia: um estudo da percepção, atitudes e valores do meio ambiente and espaço e lugar: a perspectiva da experiência, both from the Chinese geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Under the light of the space perception theory on the phenomenological-existencialist bias, the short-story will be analyzed in an interdisciplinary perspective, more specifically of the Cultural Humanistic Geography, one of the most instigating fields of contemporary Geography, where the subjectivity can be incorporated to study aims and interpret the human condition.