A representação da(s) identidade(s), na alta modernidade, em A vendedora de fósforos

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyze the book A vendedora de fósforos in order to identify some literary resources that may be representatives of the personal identities of the historical period known as High Modernity, considering that the book brings in its composition a hodgepodge of exchanging narratives voices, a construct of complex characters due to obscurity of their identities (discursive and personal), a thematic replete of creation and discovery of selfidentity and a temporal organization of the narration without fidelity to the chronological order. In this sense, it will be analyzed the literary and the stylistic resources used by the author in the construction of the characters and narrator(s), and how this process can illustrate the personal identity narratives and what are these identities; similarly, the great formal dilemma of the novel will be examined, which is the issue of the voices and the narrative point of view (interlaced), aiming to infer how this structural dynamism represents the identities of High Modernity. In order to do this, the principles of narratology will be used interwoven with the theories of sociology about these theoretical categories. The entanglement resulting from the (con)fusion of voices that apparently alternate in the narrative point of view leads to believe that there are two narrators in the text. Throughout the analysis, however, It is possible to see that one of the voices (the younger sister) is just a ventriloquist voice, a construction of the real narrator (the older sister), which represents in a significant way the amalgam and the mutual mirroring of the identities of the two sisters, either as discursive as characters, in the plot.