De carona com o Grivo: por uma metodologia de leitura lúdica para "Cara-de-Bronze"

Abstract

This study is based on the lexical field of ludology that spreads in a palimpsest through the pages of "Cara-de-Bronze", conceived here as a ludopoetic metanarrative in which its decoding depends on skill, strategy and luck. The Rosian text will be covered in search of possible clues that link it to the spectrum of games, in order to facilitate the creation of a ludic methodology that enables a fun and inventive reading of the work. After a brief overview of the history of games, especially chess, the focus is on the relationship between this game and the language presented in famous plays in Brazilian literature, concluding with Guimarães Rosa, who is mentioned first in a general manner, and then working specifically on the vocabulary of the novel, based on the various alternative definitions offered by a dictionary. Finally, having asserted the humorous conception of the novel, evidenced by the author himself through letters in which he revealed the ludic nature concealed in the construction of certain exemplary passages, we conclude by assuring its reading is also ludic, extracting from practice the immanent methodology that is based in such analytical experience.