A MORTE DE ATALA: PROJEÇÃO E DIÁLOGO EM IRACEMA
ATALA’S DEATH: THE PROJECTION AND DIALOGUE IN IRACEMA

Summary/Abstract: This article intends to compare Atala (1801), by Chateaubriand and Iracema (1865), by José de Alencar. The first literary work was the result of an initiatory journey made by the “inventor of America” to the United States and Canadian frontier in 1971. The result of his journey, Atala and other works, increased the interest in America by recapitulating the experiences and travel writing of explorers, missionaries, travelers and naturalists, as well as Chateaubriand’s images of virgin forests, rivers, etc. The second literary work is the result of an exhaustive reading of travel writing and Chateaubriand’s literary work as well (MORAES PINTO, 1995). The present analysis aims to emphasize the death of characters, based on the parallel between these two authors ongoing the hypothesis from the perspective of Chateaubriand as a model for Alencarian’s romanticism, as announced by Sainte-Beuve. This implicitly recognizing a legacy of the French writer in the tradition, in the development of the affirmation of romantic prose in Brazilian literature. The comparison of death in the two novellas will contemplate the aesthetic significance of this subject in the romantic context so-called “mal du siècle.” For this, we focus basically on the conceptions of “influence” of Claudio Guillén (1959) regarding the reflection on the creative act, as well as the domain of influence in the genesis of the literary work and this one as part of the writer’s experience. It will start from the influence between texts, it is convenient to follow a concentrated analysis on some principles of the studies of Simon Jeune (1968).

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