A CICATRIZ DO GROTESCO NA LITERATURA DE BERNARDO KUCINSKI

• Autor(a) principal: FERNANDA AMÉLIA LEAL BORGES DUARTE
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMS
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufms.br/handle/123456789/9486
• topic: Ficção contemporânea brasileira; Literatura, História e Memória; Testemunho; Personagens; antissemitismo.

The research developed aims to analyze and understand the use of the grotesque style in contemporary literature from the perspective of state violence and its consequences, based on the short stories of Bernardo Kucinski. The narratives analyzed were: “A saga of two brothers”, “Um domingo no pomar do tio Herch”, “Achuzat Bait” and “Recordações de Elias Almada”, published in the work A cicatriz e outras histórias: (quase) todos os contos de Bernardo Kucinski, by Alameda publishing house, in 2021. Throughout the research, the theoretical basis was centered on literary theory with the purpose of deepening the analysis of the chosen texts; for this, the main scholars who guided the segments of the investigation were: Paul Ricoeur and Luiz Costa Lima, whose writings were used to understand the dialogue between history and literature. Ricardo Piglia's writing served as a basis for establishing the methodology of structural analysis of the short story. The study of the works of Wolfgang Johannes Kayser, Victor Hugo and Mikhail Bakhtin was used to understand the numerous ways of handling the grotesque style in literature; finally, the theory of studies by Jaime Ginzburg, who analyzes violence and trauma in Brazilian literature, was followed. Studies on the role of characters in the structure of the narrative were also necessary to identify the stylistics of the grotesque in the contemporary short stories by Bernardo Kucinski. Thus, the discussions focus on the theoretical foundation of the narrative of the short story, the concepts of memory, testimony, grotesque and the debate between history and literature. Therefore, in this piece of research, it was observed that the content of testimonial literature is present in the writer's literary art and that political engagement in the literary corpus is relevant to the knowledge of the histories of Brazil and America in the context of the Military Dictatorships in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s; and for the history of the Jewish community, as they establish a dialogue between history and literature. Keywords: Contemporary Brazilian fiction; Literature, History and Memory; Testimony; Characters; Anti-Semitism