Transeuntes sobre ruínas: figurações alegóricas da casa familiar, no limiar de um certo exílio

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Noemi Campos Freitas [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110596
• topic: Hatoum, Milton 1952- Dois irmãos Cinzas do Norte Crítica e interpretação; Literatura brasileira; Ficção brasileira - História e crítica; Simbolismo na literatura; Brazilian fiction

The current study focuses on the investigation of allegorical aspects of family house in Milton Hatoum novels, The brothers (2000) and Ashes of the Amazon (2005). What is sought, in this work, is to undertake a reading of expressive allegory, in other words, open to a interpretative critical demand, which does not come, as we know, to solve the issues set out in the novels. According to Walter Benjamin, the criticism of the work is his mortification (cf. BENJAMIN, 2004, p. 197); according to this assumption, the literary work can be read and resignified allegorically (cf. BENJAMIN, 1984, p. 40), fitting to the critical and reflexive exercise reveal these contradictions through the allegorical reading of the family house. Allegory’s theory, developed by Benjamin, promotes a reflection about loss and attempted expression of unspeakable, through the literary language, thinking of allegorical as a dialectical and deviant discourse, which escapes historical linearity, being, therefore, contingent, as opposed to the timeless character that is assigned to the symbol. Milton Hatoum’s work, focused on raising questions about what is properly human, replaces the confrontation with the complexity of the drift and discontinuities, having, in the nuclear family, recurrent in his work, the confluence point of this complexity, for it is the “birthplace” from where radiate relations with the “other”. The house, recurrent term in the analysis, will be seen taking by resignifications, whose developments intend to point to three vertices intimately connected: allegory, memory and exile. Since this house is searched through memory, its fragmented recovery metaphorizes the subject’s self dilution that wants to achieve her. In the search for the origins, this subject finds himself exiled in an engendered dimension by memories and forgetfulness. The dialectical game between detachment and closeness, announcement and secret, latent and apparent, ...