Travessias (Dec 2011)
THE STAGE OF MEMORY IN PEDREIRA DAS ALMAS OF JORGE ANDRADE
Abstract
This study purposes to consider about the symbology and its relation with the sacred present in the Jorge Andrades play Pedreira das Almas (1957). Sings like: characters name, spatial centrality represented by the church and cemetery, saints images, the cross, and others signs that calls the reader/audiences attention to the oppositional relations in the text. These oppositions unfold to represents the relations between present and past, tradition and modernity, holy and profane. In the approaching of the Pedreira das Almas symbology, this papers intend is to emphasize the significance of the symbols in the production of the meanings process, in the highly poetic language of the text. According to Durand (1993, p.12), the symbolic image is the transfiguration of a concrete representation through an abstract sense. The symbol is, than, a representation that makes manifest a secret meaning, is the epiphany of a mystery.
