"Eu a sigo pelo que ela representa": o acontecimento em uma boa boa cidadã, de Abbas Kiarostami

Abstract

The research hereby proposed intends to analyze the text from A Good, Good Citizen by Abbas Kiarostami (1998) given the meeting between the author and a homeless girl, what we call an event. From this event (the meeting between them two), which takes place during a walk at Paulista Avenue, we can think of three moments for this thesis: at first, we get to know a bit more about Kiarostami’s work, A Good, Good Citizen, relating it to the utterance “I follow her for what she represents” KIAROSTAMI, 1998, unpaged), as well as the shifts in meaning that such utterance builds throughout our relationship with the text. In a second moment, we shall identify the referential discursive sequence as a central point to enumerate the nine discursive sequences and their shifts in meaning linked to the memory and to the connection with other texts. In a third moment, we shall establish the relevance of the narrative based on authors. Besides that, we will address the closeness of the text to the testimony, the chronicle, and the short story. As a result of our gest of comprehension, we understand that the event which takes place in the text, due to the meeting between the girl and Kiarostami, is also an encounter with ourselves, for as the thesis becomes structured so the connections between our own memories in relation to other texts are woven as well. While Kiarostami describes his adventure by following the street girl, he also talks about himself, since he is part of the text. Thus, we are immersed in the reading, to which we relate our experience and our background to yield meaning to the event that A Good, Good Citizen provides us.