THE SACRED VALUE OF DEATH IN UM DOCE AROMA DE MORTE, FROM GUILLERMO ARRIAGA

• Autor(a) principal: Marques, Bárbara Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Travessias (Cascavel. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/3269
• topic: Morte; Narrativa; Guilhermo Arriaga; Sagrado.

Guillermo Arriaga, fiction and screen writer seems to demonstrate a deep interestin Death as an important theme all over his work. We can verify it in films such as Amores Brutos(2000), 21 gramas (2003) and Babel (2006), but especially in his last novel published in Brazilnamed Um doce aroma de morte (2007). Using the countryside of Mexico, an arid and miserable region as the scenario for his story, the author demonstrates the way death can becomesomething sacred. Death in Um doce aroma de morte appears in his narrative as a construction that uses the limit as its main element, manifested in situations where a curious contemplation of thelivid, naked and aromatic body of Adela emerges. The bad smell and the degradation of the bodythat serve as evidence for the physical death are diluted in the bittersweet floral smell that givesoff from Adela’s body. In this way, thinking Death as a sort of leit motiv in the Arraiga’s narrative we purpose to understand it in two different movements: The ritual that involves the death’sbody and the sacred aura related to the character’s death.