Melancolia e solidão em contos de Caio Fernando Abreu

• Autor(a) principal: NÓBREGA JÚNIOR, Clóvis Meireles
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000c7zk
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2388
• topic: Caio Fernando Abreu; Melancolia e Solidão; Espaço e Ambientação; 1. Abreu, Caio Fernando Melancolia e solidão; 2. Abreu, Caio Fernando Conto brasileiro contemporâneo; 3. Abreu, Caio Fernando Espaço e ambientação.; Caio Fernando Abreu; Melancholia and Loneliness; Spatiality and Setting; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES

Caio Fernando Abreu always tried to create his fiction beyond conventionalisms of all kinds. In his works he exposes his particular themes through a personal use of language, considered by literary critics as very far away from the conventionalities of the Brazilian Literature of his time. This affirmation can be confirmed in great part of his narratives, such as in the following short stories selected for analysis in this thesis: "Photo","Sunday", "Flight", and "Owls", from Inventory of the Ir-remediable (1996);"Visit" and "The Canned Daisy", from The Stabbed Egg (1976);"The True Story/History of Sally Can Dance (and The Kids)",from Stones of Calcutta (1996),"For the Passage of a Great Pain" and "The Survivors" from Musty Strawberries (1995). In this study we tried to analyze certain aspects of the characters' common traits presented in Caio's narratives such as loneliness, disenchantment, disbelief and faithlessness, to demonstrate the strategies through which the writer creates these characters. The reason for this analyzes is due to a certain dissatisfaction in relation to the research conducted and published about Caio s works whose recurrent themes are, in its majority, related to the representation of homosexuality and counterculture, the Military Dictatorship in Brazil and exile because of it, the hippie movement and the emergence of AIDS, in which the text by the author is continually dismissed or considered as secondary. Using ideas by Mário de Andrade and José Paulo Paes, who respectively delineated the "failed hero" and the "poor devil" kinds of character, as well as others by Freud, Benjamin, Kristeva, Scliar and Klein, who dealt with the themes of melancholia and loneliness, we tried to present in this thesis Caio's characters as ―"melancholic-solitary" as they feel themselves strange and/or displaced in the world they live in. Furthermore, through ideas by Osman Lins, Genette and Friedman, we have tried to put into evidence the elements which create in the narratives, especially in the characters themselves and in the spaces they live in, the atmosphere of absolute loneliness and melancholia which characterizes Caio's works.