O labirinto dos eus cambiantes: a questão da identidade em Eles eram muitos cavalos, de Luiz Ruffato

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Marco Aurélio Pinheiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6424
• topic: Identity; Eroticism; Contemporary literature; Present time; Novel; Identidade; Literatura contemporânea; Erotismo; Contemporaneidade; Romance; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURA BRASILEIRA

Identity is nowadays one of the most concerning subjects in the academic world. In The question of cultural identity (2004), Stuart Hall affirms that the contemporary subjects are marked by identities in mutation, in other words, the notion of a self complete and resolved, unique, was substituted, on those times, for fragmented identities. This dissertation analyses such topic focusing the Brazilian contemporary literature over the analysis of Luiz Ruffato s Eles eram muitos cavalos. In order to do that, it introduces the concept of changing self as a mark of the current identities and texts. At first, it shows the evolution of identity concept through some contemporary authors theories that establish interesting standards to the development of the subject. Then, it analyses some short stories, novels and mainly Ruffato s text as advantageous samples of the contemporary subjectivities changing aspect. The next two chapters focus more specifying on Eles eram muitos cavalos. The novel s structure, characters, story and others elements are analyzed to explicit the identities changing. At last, it details the text s erotic aspects, looking over the eroticism as a revealing element of identities frames and changing in the novel