PRODUÇÃO DE ALTERIDADE: A EXPERIÊNCIA DO MINOTAURO / PRODUCTION OF OTHER: THE MINOTAUR`S EXPERIENCE

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2010

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The objective of this essay is to analyse the representation issues surrounding the themes of the Bull, Bullfighting and the Minotaur in three specific instances. The first instance is in Surrealism, the early 20th century avant-garde art movement. The Bull and the Minotaur are revisited and taken as object of representation by different painters during this movement. These artists, with personal perceptions, produce singular depictions of these figures. Within the Surrealist movement, emerges the second instance of interest for this work: the violent and personal writings of Michel Leiris and Georges Bataille. Both authors write about the intersections where human and bull meet and their visceral results. In the books Mirror of Tauromaquia by Michel Leiris and Story of the Eye by Bataille, the Bull emerges as a place of tensions and dislocated affectivities. The third instance takes place in 1950s Argentina where the contemporary authors Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges turn to the myth of the Minotaur as a kind of Ariadne s thread device in their writings. Both authors write about the Labyrinth and the Minotaur as symbols of experimentation of the fantastic. It is also a matter of interest of this essay to think of the Minotaur as a paradoxical monster presiding over two bodies in one, based on texts of Gilles Deleuze on Lewis Carroll for this argument. These authors and their writings represent a substantial scope to support the idea of Literature as a means of elaboration and tension in the representation and production of Other through movements of dualisms such as Man and Animal, Possible and Impossible, Real and Fiction.

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surrealismo surrealism mito myth alterity literatura alteridade violence literature violencia

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