Da literatura á arquitetura: estudo fenomenológico da casa no romance Menino de Engenho de José Lins do Rego

Abstract

The following study consists of an investigation on houses, taking “Menino de Engenho” (1932) by José Lins do Rego as its subject matter. The guiding question for this study was: how is the house narrated in that novel? Methodologically, a case study was conducted in which the novel is seen as a literary analysis unit. Data was collected after reading the novel, demarcating, and selecting excerpts that described spaces in the fictional house. The collected material was organized in a Synthesis Matrix and analyzed considering the phenomenological theory and an interdisciplinary theoretical framework. Visits were then made to the site that served as scenario for the house described in the novel, and in loco photographs were taken. Results indicate that the study of the house in an interdisciplinary perspective enlarges the analytical repertoire, since it allows passage from the purely architectonic field to the emotional field, thanks to articulation between the linguistic code of Literature and the visual code of Architecture, made possible through the poetic-phenomenological relation established between text and photography, the house being, in its essence, thought of as a creation space for sensibilities and affection, as well as a field for reminiscence.