PASSEIO NOTURNO: AN APPLICATION OF GENRE'S THEORY IN THE VIEW OF SEMIOTICS

Abstract

The object analyzed in this paper is the short story Passeio Noturno, by Rubem Fonseca. In this text, we observed the figurativization of a financially successful executive man who belongs to a family that follows the standards of Western society. However, through his personal praxis, this subject has an unexpected performance to the enunciatee-reader, in an attempt to restore some meaning to his meaningless routine. Thereby, our aim is to analyze, based on the French Semiotics and the studies of Jacques Fontanille in his work Semiotique e Litterature (1999), how the textual and discursive properties, responsible for organize the genres, relate into the context of the short story.