Semiotic Analyses of Nelson Rodrigues’s speech in the tales “Life as it is…”

Abstract

This paper deals the semiotic concept of the French school and the generative path of sense enable the analysis of the stories written and selected by Nelson Rodrigues to show the existing of sense in his discourse and the why of the used themes, that made his texts a great success with public. The three analyzed stories show themes and figuratives used by the author that let his stories always full of reality and truth. These are themes that refer to all kinds of family relations guided for the opposites love and hate, fidelity and infidelity. The work is completed showing how Nelson Rodrigues had used in his stories, figures that represented the Brazilian society in that time, but that continues current to be freely inspired by the daily reality.