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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.8.2019.tde-26022019-110419
Document
Author
Full name
Juliana Silva Cunha de Mendonça
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2018
Supervisor
Committee
Otsuka, Edu Teruki (President)
Lee, Henrique de Oliveira
Puglia, Daniel
Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini Teixeira
Title in Portuguese
Um tigre na sala: uma leitura de Os Vestígios do Dia
Keywords in Portuguese
História
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literatura contemporânea
Literatura de língua inglesa
Segunda Guerra Mundial
Teoria literária
Abstract in Portuguese
A presente dissertação busca oferecer uma leitura do romance Os Vestígios do Dia, de Kazuo Ishiguro, partindo do pressuposto de que o entendimento da obra requer um olhar sob quatro ângulos temporais: o presente da narrativa (1956, ano da Crise de Suez); a época em que se localiza cada fato narrado (em geral, o período entreguerras); uma espécie de passado mítico de uma Grande Inglaterra ao qual o narrador se referencia internamente; e o ano da recepção imediata da obra (1989, ano da queda do Muro de Berlim, embora o livro tenha sido publicado meses antes desse acontecimento). Segundo esta leitura, o romance consistiria em uma espécie de obra de fim de século que lançaria um olhar de estranhamento para o século XX a partir da perspectiva de um narrador que se vincula a valores anteriores a isso e de um leitor que avalia tanto esse narrador quanto seus oponentes de 1956 com o privilégio de uma distância temporal que criaria um efeito de ironia dramática.
Title in English
A tiger in the dining room: an analysis of The Remains of The Day
Keywords in English
Contemporary literature
English literature
History
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary theory
World War II
Abstract in English
This dissertation seeks to offer an interpretation of Kazuo Ishiguros novel The Remains of The Day based on the assumption that understanding the work requires viewing it from four temporal angles: the narrative present (1956, the year of the Suez Crisis); the time in which each narrated fact is located (the interwar period, in most cases); a sort of mythical past of a Great Britain to which the narrator refers inwardly; and the year of the immediate reception of the work (1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, though the book is published several months before the USSR falls apart). According to this reading, the novel would consist of a kind of fin-de-siècle work that throws a look of estrangement upon the twentieth century from the perspective of a narrator who is linked to values prior to this time and a reader who looks at both this narrator and his opponents in 1956 with the privilege of a temporal distance that end up creating an effect of dramatic irony.
 
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Publishing Date
2019-02-26
 
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