Da sexualidade à loucura : aspectos repulsivos em Cine Privê, de Antônio Carlos Viana

Abstract

This thesis aims to point out the social and psychological constructions of Antonio Carlos Viana‘s characters in Cine Privê collection of short stories (2009), based on the madness and eroticism. Connected to this issue, we are concerned to investigate how the grotesque body is described by the narrator‘s ironic memory, which builds silent characters set in situations of social exclusion, contextualized in decaying spaces. As theoretical and methodological elements, we start from reflections that endorse the relations of power, madness, the grotesque, eroticism and sexuality according to the perspective of Michel Foucault, Gaston Bachelard, Wolfgang Kayser and George Bataille. This research is divided in three chapters: the first one is about the theoretical part which addresses the issues of authorship, discourse and power; the second chapter, talks about the perspective from a narrator-child, presents the analysis of selected short stories through the view of madness and of the grotesque such as: "Santana Quemo-Quemo", "Quando meu pai voltou", "Minha avó Inocência" and "Nós, a maré e o morto ". Finally, the third one discusses in detail the issue of grotesque, sexuality and eroticism in the following short stories: "Cine Privê, "Angeline", "Esperanza", "Dia de parir cabrito", "Eliazar Eliazar" and "Moonlight Serenade". Thus, we intend to discuss in what ways the sexual saturation of Antonio Carlos Viana‘s characters occurs facing a disciplinative and excluding social context, as discourse is via of exclusion, as body and space are taken by repulsive aspects.