NIGHTLY STORIES: MEANINGS OF THE CITY IN JOÃO DO RIO / HISTÓRIAS DA NOITE: SENTIDOS DA CIDADE EM JOÃO DO RIO
AUTOR(ES)
MARCELO D AVILA AMARAL
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
Delving into a series of short stories written by João do Rio in the early 20th century, the present work scrutinizes unsubmission accounts that face an order that has been set up by the favors of Modernity. Such accounts - set either in a nocturnal environment or purview -, scan the urban space by means of peculiar symbolic traits, evidencing this environment as a place of resistance and a locus for the production of meaning, however fragmented or paradoxical it may be. The incongruent and unsubmissive traits analyzed by the author refer, primarily, to questions that surround human perception, erotic gesture and crime within the modern urbes, here epitomized by Rio de Janeiro during the renovation times under the Pereira Passos¿s mayorship. To accomplish this, the research of George Bataille is of utmost theoretical importance. This study intends to suggest that the modern city - and perhaps the postmodern ones - is able to produce so many other spaces and bodies leaning towards a different rationale, non-submissive to the panoptical gesture that plans and regulates, and also to generate meanings to those that have yielded to the effacing of the old city, under the light of reason that determines a new architectural frame and a new dynamics in terms of bodies and emotions, thereby proposing other spaces, other characters, other meanings and new stories.
ASSUNTO(S)
resistance eroticism modernidade resistencia city modernity cidade erotismo
