O ethos no discurso literário: a imagem do louco em "Crônica da banalidade", de Carlos de Souza

Abstract

"Chronicle Banality" is a novel of the North Rio Grande writer Carlos de Souza, published in 1988, which addresses the theme of madness, like other novels did in that period (Recommendations everyone from Alex Birth and "dote, home with me ?, one schizoid novel "Ruben G. Nunes). In this study, we analyzed the construction of crazy ethos in the work of Carlos de Souza. Based on the linguistic resources, operated in Chronicle Banality and the enunciative scenes, we aim to describe the representations / images of the narrator-character in the novel and explain how the set designs that are the literary support the crazy image. The corpus of this research consists of ten (10) scenes, whose choice was based on two criteria: first, the gradual construction of the subject will have symptoms of madness to his internment in the asylum; the second, choose the scenes in which we see the exclusion procedures and segregation of "crazy". Therefore, the anchor in the "ethos" and "enunciative scenes" MAINGUENEAU (2008, 2010, 2012) and "exclusion procedures" Foucault (1971, 2012). In the course of the research, interpret the enunciative scenes reveal the crazy ethos of the protagonist, based on stereotyped representations, expressed the waves of the inconsistency, of self-exclusion, mental illness, alcoholism and confinement. Here is how the image of the narrator-character "crazy" is based on the madness versus reason opposition, reproducing the segregation procedure, typical of disciplinary societies. We consider this important work for the consolidation of research in discourse analysis (AD), especially for working at the interface between Applied Linguistics and Literature, given that the theoretical object is not the language, but the speech, the latter being a place that articulates language, worldviews and subjectivity.