Aprendizagem da agonia em Os cus de Judas, de António Lobo Antunes

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Ana Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4855
• topic: Romance português contemporâneo; Lobo Antunes; Memória; Identidade; Portuguese contemporary romance; Lobo Antunes; Memoir; Identity; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

The study on memoir writings in the novel Os cus de Judas by the Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes, published in 1979, is inserted in a search for understanding the constitution of the subject in the contemporary society. In this novel, a physician reports his memoirs with his own life experience in the Portuguese army, fighting in the battle fields as its central axis. The narrator refers the participation in the colonial war as agony learning . However, the learning was not efficient as the initiation expected by the family, but as a metamorphose which leads the narrator to think on the conceptions which were taken as truth in his life so far. This agony whose learning was initiated by the narrator of Os cus de Judas during the war is also learned by the human being in other battles imposed by the contemporary society, in which the fixed identities pressed in the belonging to safety and comfort promoting groups have been shattered. Thus, reconfiguration of the national identity works in reconfiguring the individual identity, in the agony search for configuring one answer to the question: Who am I? therefore, this narrator and the work of Zygmunt Bauman on social conditions during that time was called by him net modernity , in addition of the critical rich appreciation of the author and the of the work.