The female writing: harassment and feminicide in the short story Venha ver o pôr-do-sol, by Lygia Fagundes Telles

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the female character representation crisis in the short story Venha ver o Pôr-do-sol, by Lygia Fagundes Telles, from the perspective of the literature of female authorship and the violence experienced by the protagonist. The short story uses well-defined aesthetic reasons when working with concepts such as gender, identity, subjectivity and the way these concepts influence the elaboration and actions of the characters. From the first line of the text to its outcome there is the focus on the characters and the valorization of the spatial element as responsible for the dark and mysterious effect that is evident throughout the text. The focus on these narrative elements and the way the writer works on the themes pertinent to the literature of female authorship favor the possibility of recognizing that Venha ver o Pôr-do-sol is a short story in which Telles consolidates herself as one of the representatives of this type of literature in Brazil. This paper initially presents a review referring to the development of literature of female authorship and the relationship between this literary moment and the writing of Lygia Fagundes Telles, and then it proposes an analysis of the short story under the bias of violence against women, considering the gender and the constitution of the identity of the characters.