AS RELAÇÕES FAMILIARES NA OBRA A CASA, DE NATÉRCIA CAMPOS

Abstract

Being a Woman-writer and not born and/or frequenting the South-Southeast axis presupposes that her work takes second place in the Brazilian literary canon. This was what happened to several northeastern belletrists, among them Natércia Campos, who debuted in literature with a work of short stories, Iluminuras (1988), prêmio na 4ª Bienal Nestlé de Literatura Brasileira. Em seguida, outras obras e premiações: Camões e Cervantes (1998), Noite das Fogueiras (1998), A Casa (1999) and Caminho das Águas (2001). The writer's only novel, which won the Osmundo Pontes award, A Casa is a first-person narrative that narrates from her birth to her death, underwater. At the same time, A casa assumes the condition of space, narrator and character, who talks about herself and the family relationships of the residents who inhabit it. As such relationships are essential to understanding the history of each of those who inhabited the space of the house, our focus is intended to reflect on such relationships marked by encounters/disagreements; joys/sadness; noises/silences. This is a bibliographic-descriptive work based on the following authors: Almeida (1987), Ariès (1987), Soares Neto (2007), Priori (2002), Cavalcante (2007), between others. Family relationships in A Casa are marked by wounds and silences in a vain attempt to “erase” stains, or simply because those involved do not know how to deal with conflicting situations.