Interseções entre os gêneros policial e gótico em Pedro Bandeira

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Márcio Alessandro de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• 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/1/13927
• topic: Gothic; Detective novel; Brazilian Literature; Pedro Bandeira; Gótico; Narrativa policial; Literatura brasileira; Pedro Bandeira; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This work examines two narratives by Brazilian author Pedro Brandeira (1942): Anjo da Morte [Angel of Death] (1988) and Pântano de Sangue [Swamp of Blood] (1987), whose plots, as it is intended to be demonstrated in the corresponding chapters, employ the formula of thedetective novel, while at the same time makes use of the three pre-eminent elements of literary Gothic: the locus horribilis, the ghost of the historical past and the monster. In Anjo da Morte such components would configure Gothic in Brazil, formed by foreign elements located in Brazil or in another country by choice of a Brazilian author, whereas Pântano de Sangue would evidence the occurrence of Brazilian Gothic, characterized by the presence of elements of this genre in a local setting. The main objective is to investigate the way in which the two adventures of Pedro Bandeira are inserted in the tradition of the detective novel, in which the characters are extremely rational, and the way in which they use the mentioned ingredients of the Gothic, that have fear as the common point of contact most visible to the detective genre. In the specific case of Pedro Bandeira, certain types of obscurity, such as towers, secret passages and prisons, lodge the locus horribilis, the historical past that haunts the present and the monster, marked in the literary productions examined here, by the uncanny, not by the wanderful.