A construção do espaço gótico e da simbologia em O poço e o pêndulo de Edgar Allan Poe.

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze, through bibliographical research, the construction of the Gothic space based on the subjectivity of the narrator-character of the short story The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), by the American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Whereas nothing in a short story is put in any way in its corpus, the symbols of some entries are in the analysis of this research, based on Chevalier and Gheerbrant (1998). To discuss both the story's trajectory and its characteristics, the theoretical support of the research are authors such as Massaud Moisés (2006), Nadia Battella Gotlib (1985), Patrice Pavis (1999), Carlos Reis and Ana Cristina M. Lopes (1988). Considering this story as belonging to Gothic literature, the theoretical basis of this aspect is in Carlos Antônio Leite (2006) and HP Lovecracft (1973), one of which presents the Gothic trajectory in architecture, and another in the literature, besides exposing its characteristics within the narratives of the eighteenth century. It is also discussed about the life and work of this author, based on Spiller's (1961) vision, and to understand more about his aestheticism, conceptions of Massaud Moisés (2006) are used and, from them, the trajectory of the writer Edgar Allan Poe, the poet and the storyteller, was discussed. Finally, the research exposes the characteristics of the Gothic space present in the story, taking as reference the subjectivity and perspective of the narrator-character and, to intensify the unity of effect, the discussion about the symbols of entries like "pit", "pendulums" and "rats", were important for this analysis.