Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANA CAROLINA MOURA MENDONÇA

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STUDENT : ANA CAROLINA MOURA MENDONÇA
DATE: 17/12/2020
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

Aesthetic of the absurd: the revolutionary form of the Brazilian romance from the 70's

KEY WORDS:

Fantastic novel. Surrealist novel. Carnivalization. Brazilian military dictatorship. Pilatos. Tambores Silenciosos. O dia em que Ernest Hemingway morreu crucificado.

PAGES: 138
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

In view of the narrative innovation of works characterized by the social and political fragility of Brazil during the dictatorial period, we propose the study of three novels from the 1970s highlighted, above all, by the subversion of the aesthetic structure itself. We established our selection to works from the 70s which presented in their structure a fantastic and surrealistic nature associated with aesthetic of experimentalism, so that the study was guided by a discussion of the formal engagement of these literary texts, reaching other concepts common to the three works selected for this study: Pilatos (1974), by Carlos Heitor Cony; Tambores silenciosos (1977), by Josué Guimarães; and, finally, O dia em que Ernest Hemingway morreu crucificado (1978), by Minas Gerais author Roberto Drummond. The three novels presented bring an experimentalism stood out by the supernatural element in the structure that, in a responsive way, manifests the engaged content of the literary text. Even amid an attempt to silence literature, many works from the 1970s, during the height of dictatorial violence, reported the regime through its unique aesthetic. The adoption of an unusual structure derived from the fantastic novel already acts in a way to subvert a traditional aesthetic of the novel - when it is reflected on the realistic perspective in accordance with Lukács - and, thus, to favor a structural homology capable of denouncing the absurd authoritarianism of the regime dictatorial political. In addition, the fantastic novel itself, in its hesitant constitution, when associated with other innovative aesthetic procedures, favors the opening of a new aesthetic perspective based on the non-sense, on the total absurdity revealed by the unconscious in an attempt to reveal a deeper truth, that is, revolutionary. This new constitution of the novel, called the surrealist novel, is characterized by the revolution of language in its connection with the oneiric. In the method proposed for this work, form is the means for establishing the content of a work of art. In this sense, we think of the form as an aesthetic characteristic on which the engaged content is inserted and, therefore, such social engagement is inserted in a singular way in the compositional logic of the novel. Hence, the method of analysis of literary texts provides for a constant dialogue among this compositional structure, which encompasses the association between the formal configuration and the content, with the socio-political context of the 70s. Therefore, this study is elaborated as proposed by the Dialectical Criticism of Antonio Candido (2011b), which aims at the dialectical study of the work with the context, without, however, prioritizing the sociological study, however observing the way in which the narrative promotes a structural reduction of these external elements in order to make them participants in the aesthetic configuration that constitutes the novel.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1513790 - ANDREY PEREIRA DE OLIVEIRA
Externa à Instituição - ANA CRISTINA PINTO BEZERRA - IFRN
Externa à Instituição - LANAIZA DO NASCIMENTO SILVA ARAUJO - IFRN