Ana Clara e Anelise: a relação entre literatura, sociedade e melancolia em As Meninas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles e As Parceiras, de Lya Luft

Abstract

This work is established from the comparative analysis between the characters Ana Clara in As Meninas of Lygia Fagundes Telles, and As Parceiras of Lya Luft. For that, fundamentally we started from the concepts presented by Antonio Candido and Mikhail Bahktin about the construction of character in fiction. In order to reflect how sociohistorical processes of modernity are part of the fictional productions, we aim to identify how the ideological discourses of capitalism and patriarchy are represented in the literature produced by these authors, Telles and Luft. We sustain, therefore, a view supported by the relationship between literature and society and at that point, we discuss how the characters are composed from a melancholic bias - considering the perspective of Walter Benjamin - which manifests itself as a representation of a massified and reified society, showing melancholy as a sense of loss that permeates the experience of individuals.