A representação literária do corpo abjeto no romance O filho de mil homens, de Valter Hugo Mãe

Abstract

This literary work has within its scope study the representation of abjection literature, as well as a critical reading on the romance “O filho de mil homens” (2016), by Valter Hugo Mãe, in the pretense of analyzing the themes related to the body of the literary work. Therefore, I premise myself on the esthetic of abjection, established by the purports of Judith Butler (2016a; 2016b), Julia Kristeva (1980) e Márcio Seligman-Silva (2005; 2008), to comprehend how the character of Antonino is dehumanized on the literary work of Mãe, which leds to the questioning of the human condition itself, founded on, moreover, to the esthetic of cruelty, based on Antonin Artaud (2006), Clément Rosset (2002) and Renato Gomes (2004), on the perspective of understanding how the cruelty expressed on the prose isn’t as only by true “bloodshed”. I infer, as well, the aspects regarding to the chronostope – spatiality and temporality – based on the theoric-critical presupposition, primarily, of Mikhail Bakhtin (1992, 1993), in addition to reflecting on te consonance about the topoanalysis, of Gaston Bachelard (1974), and the symbolism, of Jean Chevalier & Alain Gheerbrant (1999), regarding the abjection and the inter-relationship between the chronostope and the ficcional statute of the valterian prose as basic elements and fundamental to the "suture" of the literary and theoretical texts. I list Richard Miskolci (2017) and Judith Bluter (2016a) to comprehend questions such as sexuality, social order and insubordination through the queer theory.