LIMA, A. P. H.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2263946349212791; LIMA, Ana Paula Henrique de.
Resumen:
This research has as main objective to analyze how the representation of humorous
language is given in the work A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro D’água by Jorge
Amado. The theoretical foundation that guides the work is based on the reflections of
the philosopher Henri Bergson (2001), we explored more specifically the idea of humor
displayed by the words, which changes according to each epoch or society in which
man is inserted, the laughing is seen as an instrument of punishment, and people who
are not prone to laughter. As for the literary thinker Vladimir Propp (1992), we
highlight some categories and aspects of laughter, proposed by the scholar, as well as
the sneer laughter, the most common in real life and in literature, and the good laugh.
This researcher also proposes a subdivision of sneer, among this classification we
contemplate the following aspects: the comicality of the similarities, of the differences,
the ridicularization of the professions, the comic exaggeration, parody, among others.
From the point of view of critical we held in the studies of Duarte (1995), and focus in
particular the two phases of the Bahian artist Jorge Amado, the first one focused on the
political and social ideologies, and the second one focused on humorous, erotic and
cultural issues, besides other points. This research is bibliographic and interpretative
nature, based on the analysis of the amadian novel A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro
D’água, and we have as corpus the central character of the narrative, Quincas Berro
D’água. During the reading and the study of the novel in question we verify many
aspects of laughter cited by Propp (1992), among them the parody, and the grotesque.
This latter fits into one of the forms of comic exaggeration. With respect to the
categories, also proposed by this thinker, we found mostly the sneer and the good laugh,
among other humorous features, such as the comicality charged by injurious words
predominant in the plot of the book in question.