THE LITERARY REPRESENTATION OF THE ABJECT BODY IN THE NOVEL
THE SON OF A THOUSAND MEN, BY VALTER HUGO MÃE.
Abjection. Body. Cruelty. Representation. Literature.
This literary work has within its scope study the representation of abjection literature, as well as a critical reading on the romance “O filho de mil homens” (2016), by Valter Hugo Mãe, in the pretense of analyzing the themes related to the body of the literary work. Therefore, I premise myself on the esthetic of abjection, established by the purports of Judith Butler (2016a; 2016b), Julia Kristeva (1980) e Márcio Seligman-Silva (2005; 2008), to comprehend how the character of Antonino is dehumanized on the literary work of Mãe, which leds to the questioning of the human condition itself, founded on, moreover, to the esthetic of cruelty, based on Antonin Artaud (2006), Clément Rosset (2002) and Renato Gomes (2004), on the perspective of understanding how the cruelty expressed on the prose isn’t as only by true “bloodshed”. I infer, as well, the aspects regarding to the chronostope – spatiality and temporality – based on the theoric-critical presupposition of Beth Brait (2010), Cristóvão Tezza (2003), Gaston Bachelard (1974) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1922, 1993) and how the inter-relationship between space and time occurs on the fictional status on the valterian prose whilst pivotal elements and fundaments to the ‘suture’ of the literary and theoric work.