Dois Irmãos e seus precursores

The following dissertation focuses on the analysis and comparison of Milton Hatoum's novel Dois Irmãos (The Brothers, 2006) and the biblical narrative of the fraternal clashes in the book of Genesis, especially that of the twins Jacob and Esau.The conflict-ridden relationship between brothers is a constant leitmotiv, a point of interest that develops in different ways throughout the first book of the Hebrew Bible.Hatoum seeks the biblical narrative -matrix for Western thought and Humanity's cultural memory through the impulse of his theme, therefore he does not set out from the Bible.How then, does the Brazilian author progress through his novel, whose fulcrum is the clash between brothers in respect to their primogeniture, which brings us back to the generative biblical text of Genesisto baste his fiction?Our journey in search of this answer is brightened by a fumbling and stumbling path.As in a folkloric dance, narrator and protagonists spiral, trade places and take turns in the roles of Esau, Jacob, Cain, Abel, and Joseph.Our research will approximate these narratives either through similarities or through the estrangement from the Hatounian novel.We will seek the vestiges from the biblical narrative present in the Brazilian author's work following the trails of Omar, Yaqub, and especially the narrator, Nael.An interspersed narrator, half Indian, half Arab; bastard son, progeny of one of the novel's twins and a young Indian girl, the Lebanese family's maid.Led by Nael's narrative, we will constantly flirt with the eyes of memory.Nael leads us to a surprising discovery: it is he who brings into focus the national scope in our research and, as a descendant to the indigenous Amazonian peoples, he reveals himself as the most legitimate heir to all mythological ancestralityborn from folktales and myths of rival twinsnarratives that are as ancient if not more than the Bible.So, to a certain extent, Nael steals the lightoriginally shined upon the twins Omar and Yaqubfor himself and embraces the "primogeniture", while the power and name are at stake, be it from the family's patriarch, or the original myth

Art · Humanity · Literature · Narrative · Romance · Theme (computing · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Linguistics and Language Studies · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy

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