As construções literárias em torno da amizade: uma análise comparativa das obras de Elena Ferrante e Muriel Barbery

Abstract

In this article, we intend to carry out a comparative analysis in order to understand how the friendship relationship present in the books “A vida mentirosa dos adultos” (2019), by Elena Ferrante, and “A elegância do ouriço” (2008), by Muriel Barbery, can dialogue with each other and enable us to perceive how narratives with divergent forms and similar themes build the birth and separation of the relationship between the charac-ters. For this, we built a bibliographical research of a qualitative nature and based on the writings of Carvalhal (2006), Alós (2012), Coutinho (2008), Lobo (1997), Santos (2016), Maas (2000), Schwantes (2007), Carvalho (2016), Bakhtin (2003) and Leite (2002). At the end of the research, we understand how the beginning and end of friendship, presented by both works, each became coherent in its own way. Thus, although the two texts present aspects of Bildungsroman and the presence of the narrators-protagonists, in Ferrante’s work, friendship is based more on the maturation process and its significance in the characters’ lives, and in Barbery’s work, the presence of two narrators-protagonists who enunciate, through their voices, their subjectivities and the particularities that unite them, becomes more significant for the friendship built.