BETWEEN HUMOR AND EROTICISM IN DAY OF THE FLIES: A NOVEL OF BAD HABITS
Humor. Eroticism. “The day of the flies”.
Nei Leandro de Castro, an author from Rio Grande do Norte, in his first novel The Day of the Flies: a novel of bad habits, originally released in 1983 and reissued in 2008, takes on the responsibility of counting, through the vein of humor and eroticism, the history of the foundation of the Potiguar nation. The author brings India Hosanna and the hunter Cançado to open this story through a regional narrative, skewed by dialogues with other texts. Once this corpus was selected, we sought to verify the presence of humor and eroticism in this work, with a view to the transitivity and plurality of the discourses that skewed the whole course of the novel. Methodologically, this work is characterized by a qualitative-interpretative nature and is based on the concept of carnivalization of BAKHTIN (1997) and eroticism, according to Octavio Paz (1994) and Georges Bataille (1987). The results of the analysis point to a communication with socially circulating discourses such as the religious sphere, tradition and popular culture, as well as the dethronement of canonical discourse through dialogue with José de Alencar's work Iracema (2013) through the discourse of humor and eroticism.