Cemitério, Formigas e Caçada: leitura com suspense em Lygia Fagundes Telles.

Abstract

This work aimed at analysing the receptiveness of first year high school students of a public school in Catolé do Rocha - PB to suspense stories written by Lygia Fagundes Telles. The analytical-descriptive methodology was adopted for reading the corpus. Jauss, Zilberman, Iser e Lima were the main authors researched to base the theories which account for the relationship between the readers and the selected texts. Our work is divided into three chapters. In the first one, three short stories written by the author native of Sao Paulo were analysed. In the short story "As formigas" - The ants - the protagonists are faced with a strange and rare case in which small ants appear in the middle of the night to reconstitute the skeleton of a dwarf, the mystery is set in an atmosphere of fantasy within the narrative, the dark setting and the symbols are the main means of this procedure. In "A caçada" - The hunt - the male character is suffering from an identity crisis, because of that he travels to the past to solve his crisis, but, unfortunately, he ends up being the victim of a hunt, this unexpected event legitimises the surreal intention in the story. In the story "Venha ver o pôr-do-sol" - Come and see the sunset - the characters live a trivial romantic relationship drama which ends in tragedy. The ambiguous, and sometimes, allegorical dialogues unveil the actual truth. In the second chapter, we present data collected from the students reading experience, highlighting the receptiveness and the impact which was caused in the readers by the suspense of the narratives. In the third chapter, we analysed the students' written production about the end of the story "Venha ver o pôr-do-sol" observing the procedures adopted by the group when suggesting a closing to the story. Some of the participants followed a ghostly pattern while others chose to trace a romantic route for the characters encounter in an abandoned cemetery. The results achieved in this dissertation demonstrate that it is possible to arouse students interests by literature, even when dealing with texts like the ones we chose.