Os sentidos em palavras: composição do imaginário e sensorial da personagem Beatriz de A tradutora

Abstract

The structure of A tradutora, novel by Cristovão Tezza, is fragmented by staging the way that the protagonist Beatriz's mind (dis)organizes thoughts, sensations and everyday events. The fictional world presents itself in a chaotic form requiring from Beatriz the translation of several signs, going beyond her profession as translator, by interpreting gestures, intonations and accents, erudite texts, and products of mass culture. Under the translator's eye which is the central axis of the narrative, all the other characters are revealed. In addition to these questions, the protagonist identifies herself with the other characters and situations that she "saw" in literary prose, TV series, and films by engaging emotionally with other fictions. Thus, we seek to analyze the imagery, sensory and staging aspects as well as the cinematographic references that emerge of the novel A tradutora from Beatriz's repertoire of reception and imagery. With that in mind, we turn to scholars who theorize concepts related to the character, imagination and image: Antônio Cândido, Gaston Bachelard, Jacques Aumont and Jean-Paul Sartre.