A memória e a (des)construção do passado em O som e a fúria e O esplendor de Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Coelho, Isa Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal Fluminense (RIUFF)
• Texto Completo: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/19037
• topic: Identidade; História e literatura; Literatura comparada; Memória; Relações de poder; Polifonia; Ambigüidade; Faulkner, William, 1897- 1962 - O Som e a Fúria; Antunes, António Lobo, 1942-. O esplendor de Portugal; Identity; Memory; Power relations; Polyphony; Ambiguity; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

The aim of this work is to draw a comparison between the novels The sound and the fury, by William Faulkner, and O esplendor de Portugal, by António Lobo Antunes, in order to unveil the approaches the texts adopt to formulate new readings of the historical and social processes while casting doubt on preexisting imaginaries. It also has the intention to point out how these texts configure themselves as critical vehicles of the most important modern issues, when all human practices, whether in social, work or family environment, take place in conditions of precariousness, vulnerability and sheer loneliness, highlighting the way the instability of human bonds leads to an identity crisis. Within this line of thought, this study analyzes racial and gender relations, probing into the discursive locations where identities are strategically and institutionally constructed, with the objective of destabilizing the binary and Manichean thinking that supports them. Furthermore, it is the purpose of this work to underline the perfect harmony between the narrative techniques employed and the subject matter of the texts. The lacunar and discontinuous nature of the narrative intertwining, plus the ambiguity of the diegesis, defies any system of homogenization in that it denounces the vacillation of truth that poises itself on the frailty of the memory accounts, and therefore challenges the opposition between fiction and reality, drawing the attention to the critical potential of literature.