Musical aspects and the Soundscape in ‘The Lost Link & Other Tales’, by Charles Kiefer

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the soundscape in the tales of the book O Elo Perdido & Outros Contos, of the Brazilian writer Charles Kiefer. The soundscape may be defined as the sonic elements found in a given environment, being this ambient a city, a room, the sounds of nature, or any other place. Considering the different possibilities of analysis that the literary text allows, we intend to highlight the soundscape as an element of the narrative through the presence of the sounds in the selected work, and through this demonstrate the way they are relevant in the construction of the plots. The approach on the sound landscape in literature is a relatively new subject from which one seeks to understand the relation between the sonority and the actions of the characters. David Lodge (2017), Eni Pucinelli Orlandi (2007), Gérson Werlang (2011), and Murray Schafer (2011) give the theoretical basis for this analysis, which takes into consideration also the relations between different arts in the fictional text.