Traces of the Greek tragedy

Abstract

This research is intended to give new meanings to theclassical greek tragedy elements whose origin comes from Ancient Greece in literary texts which were not written to be staged in plays. ÁguaFunda, a novel by Ruth Guimarães, was used to carry out this study. It was verified which classicalgreek tragedy elements can be found in the novel and how they got new meanings, that is, how they were adapted by the author along the narrative. From the choice of the corpus, literary analyses were made based, mainly, on studies about greek tragedy, written by Aristóteles, Most, Gimenes, Brandão, Luna and Santos, on Kristeva’stheoryaboutintertextuality,and on the study developed by Oliveira, who conducted a research on this novel. The research methodology involves a comparative and qualitative approach of theoretical and analytical nature. It was realized that in this novel, there is theme intertextuality and the hero is led to the final catastrophe due to the inexorability offado, a traditional melancholy Portuguese music.