Citação em literatura de ficção: uma análise do uso na obra de Caio Fernando Abreu

Abstract

We present the results of the research whose general objective is to investigate the presence and the way in which the citations are presented in the works of Caio Fernando Abreu, a fiction writer. The analysis of citations has been studied in the scope of the scientific and technological literature and follows specific rules of the national and international standards of documentation, however in the context of the literature, already citation studies in fictional literature is still not very easy to find. It is an exploratory research of a descriptive nature and based on the functionalist method, because with it it is possible to analyze the function of the citation in the text of Caio Fernando Abreu. Documentary analysis was also adopted, as is a mapping of citations in fiction literature. We read the entire work of the author and chose to carry out this study in his stories and romance, excluding his chronicles, letters and children's book. We map the cited authors, locate the original text and make their reference according to the ABNT - NBR 6023 standard. We analyze how the citations are signaled in the text, and your function - memorialistic rescue and character characterization. We give an overview of how the citation is used and studied in the scientific literature, since citation studies in fiction literature are not very easy to find. We use some of these principles as basis, namely: authors and works most cited. We present a table with the citations found and the list of references organized by the book where it is found. The results show that 39 citations were identified in the studied books, 36 direct and 3 paraphrases. In addition, among the analyzed books the citations do not follow a standard nor the Norms of the ABNT. They stand out as most cited authors, Clarice Lispector and Ferreira Gullar. It is also observed that in a work - The stabbed egg - although the citations were located, it was not possible to find the original work. It is concluded, therefore, that the studies of the analysis of citations can also be applied to the fictional text evidencing the necessity of other researches contemplating our object of study.