A paisagem sonora na obra de Charles Kiefer: um estudo acerca de O pêndulo do relógio, Valsa para Bruno Stein e a Face do abismo.

Abstract

In this paper we aim to analyze the presence and importance of the soundscape in three works of the Brazilian writer Charles Kiefer. The term soundscape has its origin in the study of acoustics and it is associated to all the sounds presented in a determined place or ambient. For instance, in the fictional text, it is related to all sounds presented in the narrative. O Pêndulo do Relógio (1984), Valsa para Bruno Stein (1986) and A Face do Abismo (1988) form the corpus of analysis that has as its main theoretical sources the works of the Canadian composer and musicologist Murray Schafer and of the musician, teacher and writer Gérson Werlang. This essay was divided in four chapters. Chapters one, two and three are dedicated to the analysis of the soundscape in the chosen works of Charles Kiefer. The analysis follows the same order of publication of the books. In the first one, the sonic aspects are evidenced and also the way the sounds influence the acts of the protagonist. The second chapter stands out that the novel has the same structure of the waltz. Chapter three covers more than eighty years of sonic aspects of the community where the story takes place. The fourth and last chapter draws a panorama of sonic representations that appear as repetitions in the three novels, elucidating the particularities in each of them, in the way that they are represented in the texts.