THE AESTHETICS OF HILDA HILST, IN CONTOS D’ESCÁRNIO. TEXTOS GROTESCOS, UNDER THE LIGHT OF PORNOGRAPHY
Hilda Hilst, pornography, writing, eroticism.
This work aims to analyze the second book of the nineties’ trilogy written by Hilda Hilst, Contos D’escárnio. Textos Grotescos (1990), using pornography as its analytical category. The study makes use of theorists such as Lynn Hunt (1999) and Susan Sontag (1987), in order to reflect on the aspects that make pornography an artistic-literary genre, considering its historical transformations along the way and questioning reductionist definitions that end up dealing with pornography and art as antithetical elements. The work brings a discussion about the opposition between eroticism and pornography as distinct literary genres, showing the structural and conceptual problems involving such antinomy. Here the inconsistencies that the critics point out in the aesthetics of Hilst, when it comes to pornographic writing, are seen from an innovative perspective. The analysis will happen through the observation on the way Hilda converses, through her writing, with the compositional elements of pornography, taking into account the historicity of the genre. The ideas of Maingueneau (2010) about the pornographic discourse are of utmost importance for the analytical development of this research.