Representação e metaespaço em No country for old men de Cormac McCarthy

Abstract

This work aims to reflect on representation and space in the literary work. The representation of space in art creates an extension of its image that characterizes itself in relation to the natural and imaginary cultural entities, as well as the characters that coexist from this confluence. In this sense, we problematize the ways in which space is represented in literature, and we postulate the concept of meta-space as it unfolds by the space itself. We illustrate our discussion through Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men (2005) in order to think about the concept of meta-space in his work. To understand this concept, we address questions about representation (FOUCAULT, 2016) and space category (LIMA, 1988; ELLIS, 2006; BRANDÃO, 2013) in the work of art. Then, handling McCarthy's novel, we discuss how space is constructed in the author's text. We hypothesize that space is metaphorized in the voice of the characters and the narrator; these voices talk about space and their own human conditions in it. In this context, the reader himself may be affected by this meta-space that emerges from and between the lines.