A linguagem humorística na obra A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro D’água, de Jorge Amado.

Abstract

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.