Abordagem Geocrítica d’A Grande Velocidade (Notas de Gare) de Guiomar Torrezão (1898)

Abstract

This article intends to undertake a multifocal interpretation of Guiomar Torrezão’s travel narrative “A grande velocidade (Notas de Gare)”. Based upon a quantitative survey of the place names mentioned and a qualitative study of the described landscape characteristics we mapped the living space (first space) intersected with the fictionalized space, to enhance what Edward Soja calls the third space, a space where “(…) everything comes together… subjectivity and objectivity, the abstract and the concrete, the real and the imagined, the knowable and the unimaginable, the repetitive and the differential, structure and agency, mind and body, consciousness and the unconscious, the disciplined and the transdisciplinary, everyday life and unending history.” (SOJA, 1996: 56).