Caim e Abel: uma leitura de Improbus Amor, de Frederico José Correia, como processo de singularização da personagem judia Abel / Cain and Abel: a reading of Improbus Love, of José Frederico Correia, as the process of singling of character jewish Abel
AUTOR(ES)
Daniel Santana de Jesus
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
Acquiring a sensitive taste for the appreciation of realitys gloomy elements dates back to the mid 18th century in Europe. The dissemination of this new sensitivity in Brazil can be studied in our second generation Romanticism led by young poets such as Álvares de Azevedo, Bernardo Guimarães, and Fagundes Varela. Among the poems in the work Inspirações Poéticas (Poetical Inspirations) by the romantic poet Frederico José Correia, there is a series of texts characterized by a gloomy content. One of them is Improbus amor, a forbidden passion story between Abel and his sister Elisa. The aim of this dissertation is to study a series of gloomy elements which are found in this poem, for instance, misanthropy, sadomasochism, incestuous passion, and Jewish condition seen as a curse. Methodologically, it is deemed most feasible to study these elements as an essential part of the romantic hero Abels gloomy figure. The character analysis is divided in three parts. In the first part, Abels hypersensibility is examined. In the second and third part, we have studied the function of Judaism in its pathos and tragic destiny. In these two latter sections, we have considered Abels rebellion against Christian society which discriminated him for the fatality role of his destiny while being an element of a group seen in possession of a cursed heritage. Against all expectations, the analysis has revealed that hypersensibility, and not Abels proscribed Judaism, was the determining element of this romantic heros constitution. The predominance of a greater idiosyncratic aspect over the other aspect mostly determined by the outside world in the analysis of Abel can be considered as a mark of Romanticisms major subjectivism appreciation.
ASSUNTO(S)
frederico josé correia improbus amor "improbus amor" frederico josé correia literatura brasileira herói romântico romantic hero judaism judaísmo brazilian literature
