"Noturno Amarelo": a Study of Affective Spacial Relations in Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

The present work aims to study the short stories "Noturno amarelo" by Lygia Fagundes Telles, under the symbolic aspect of the landscape. The author narrates the drama of her characters surrounded by suggestions and spatial subtleties. Her most diverse themes - such as death, madness, love mismatch and revenge - emerge not only in the dialogues of his characters, but also in the spaces charged with symbolism: paths, gardens, houses, rooms, stairs...The author's short stories are constituted by microuniverses of affective tensions of latent relations with the spaces of experiences of the personages. The analysis of the short story will be made from the theoretical perspective of the Chinese geographer Yi-Fu Tuan in his book Space and Place: the perspective of experience (2013) in which the link between man's affective ties to the material environment is evident. It will be of pertinent contribution, the considerations of Gaston Bachelard on the poetics of the perception of lived space taken from his book The poetics of space (1993). Once this short story is linked to memory and affectivity, notes on the memory of scholars Maurice Halbwachs (2006) and Paul Ricoeur (2007) will be used.