Entre outras mil

Abstract

This work is composed by two pieces. The first one is constituted by the novel Entre outras mil that reports the story of Raquel, married to Carlos and daughter of Sueli. A country girl, from a lower-class, that struggles to win the approval of a judge competition. She lives a rushed and apathetic life besides her husband, when her mother, that disappeared without trace, when Raquel was a teenager, reappears after twenty years. The mother wants to take her to tell their separation story live, on TV, in a Mother’s Day special. The plot shows a character that is revealed only by the memory of the protagonists, the mystical aunt Neusa, common thread of the affection between them. Set in Porto Alegre, but with passages of Raquel’s childhood in the countryside, the plot recalls the peak of televison, above all the soap operas (telenovelas), and how that goes through the characters. The second piece is the Ensaio tramado, essay about the making of the novel, intimately interlaced with it. In it I epoxe my rights and wrongs in the creative process, and the tension paths by which I passed to develop the form and the substance. The essay is also composed by two pieces. The first one tries to estabilish the process onto the elements of the novel: plot, time, narration, tone, social scene, and, also, the research of the relationship mother and daughter for the construction of the characters. The second piece, treats of the deconstruction of the creative process in an attempt to search for the secret center of the text, the subjective and fixed intention that supports the plot.