O espaço agônico em William Faulkner e Francisco Dantas

This article compares the construction of literary space between As I lay dying (1930), by William C. Faulkner, and Uma jornada como tantas (2019), by Francisco J. C. Dantas, commenting about the social and aesthetic peculiarities of the space based on reflections of the agonic experiences of characters in transit to death. In this study, we bring theoretical-methodological approaches that permeate concepts about narrative space, according to Lins’ thoughts (1976), Borges Filho’s (2007), Brandão’s (2019) and Dardel’s (2015) thoughts, among others. We arrive to the results that Faulkner’s and Dantas’ characters are indication of an agonic space, where emerge men and women lost in reveries and laments of a life subject to various ways of oppression.