Archetypes of feminine dualism in the short-story “Desenredo” by João Guimarães Rosa

In the short-story “Desenredo”, from Tatuméia by João Guimarães Rosa, the archetypes of the feminine dualism portrait the attributes of the women’s position in the world. Adulteress, the main character is the Witch, the Great prostitute, Lilith, personifying the bacchante soul, the prototype Dionysi...

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Autores: da Silva, Antonia Marly Moura, Mangueira, José Vilian
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Letras de Hoje (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/11316
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/11316
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tutaméia
“Desenredo”
Feminine character
Archetypes
Personagem feminina
Arquétipos
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Sumario:In the short-story “Desenredo”, from Tatuméia by João Guimarães Rosa, the archetypes of the feminine dualism portrait the attributes of the women’s position in the world. Adulteress, the main character is the Witch, the Great prostitute, Lilith, personifying the bacchante soul, the prototype Dionysian, but, at the end of the story, by a magic way, her lover reestablish to the other’s eyes the image of the woman, which was feared and hated by the locals. Being part of the Mother figure, the character starts to be typified as the Virgin, Eva’s archetypes, representing perfection and pureness: goals of the masculinity aspiration recognized by the Eros’ tradition. Following those ideas we will do a reading of the short-story trying to recognize symbols and archetypes of the duality express on the fictional architecture.