Um olho torto na literatura de Graciliano Ramos / A cross-eyed look in Graciliano Ramoss literature

AUTOR(ES)

Wagner da Matta Pereira

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This dissertation analyses, within a psychoanalytical e literary perspective, the enigma of blindness in Graciliano Ramoss work. The approach takes into account, mainly, the narratives of Histórias de Alexandre (Alexandres tales) and Infância (Childhood memories) as both books speak of the same theme: the injured eye. The writers work is scourged so that a broaden symbolism regarding the hurt eye can be found. The subject is discussed from three significant elements: fragmentation, helplessness and melancholy; all these form the creative aesthetic of Graciliano, merging into a single object. Fragmentation representing the internal shattered world of his characters, which is reflected in the environment; helplessness, directly related to feelings of rejection; and melancholy, characterized by a strong feeling of emptiness. The theme of isolation and loss is discussed based on Mourning and melancholy, by Freud, and other theorizers. There is also a brief dialogue with the Romantic and philosophical theories, which tries to explain the melancholic condition in the individual before moments of distress. Such theories are the support for the understanding of the helplessness of the hero in Graciliano Ramoss literature and for the assumption that the blindness in the mistreated boy of the book Infância could be the language of the traumatic aspect that colors the entire text of the writer. As matter of fact, it constitutes in the lost object represented in the anguish of the authors characters

ASSUNTO(S)

fragmentation melancolia graciliano ramos literatura comparada blindness cegueira melancholy fragmentação, desamparo graciliano ramos helplessness

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