A ESPACIALIDADE NA CONTÍSTICA DE COLM TÓIBÍN

Abstract

This article presents an analysis about the composition of the spatiality in the stories of the irish writer Colm Tóibín. The object of my research is, mainly, analyze how Tóibín utilizes the space in his texts, as well as the procedures that he utilizes in the creation of the fictional space in its narratives, seeking establish the relation of those spaces with the others narratologics elements. For it carry out such research, we will utilize authors that studied the question of the space, as Gaston Bachelard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Joseph Kestner. Therefore, we will study the space in the fictional works of Colm Tóibín using as theorical basis a poetic theory of the space, of its perception and of the form as the spatiality is related straightly with others elements of the narrative.