Desencontro e experiência urbana em contos de Caio Fernando Abreu

The aim of this study is to investigate the articulations between disencounter, city and contemporary urban experience in short-stories by Caio Fernando Abreu.Ten short-stories from his works O ovo apunhalado (2001( ), Morangos mofados (1982)), Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso (1988) and Ovelhas negras (2002) were selected.Our hypothesis is that the disencounter is an aesthetic proposition in the work of Caio Fernando Abreu, constructing the critical view of the writer about the city and the urban experience.The study of disencounter, in this work, comprises four different forms of manifestation of this experience: 1) the disencounter as difficulty of communication and change of experiences; 2) the building of disencountered dialogues; 3) the disencounter between present and past in the life of the character marked by frustration and trauma; and 4) the disencounter of the character with himself.The disencounter, in the work of Caio Fernando Abreu, shall be analyzed according to the ideas of Walter Benjamin (1986; 1994) on experience; the loss of experience and narrative.The concept of history, also by Walter Benjamin (2005); shall be important to understand the representation of the Brazilian recent history in short-stories by Caio Fernando Abreu.It will be studied, in the short-stories, the main narrative procedures which constitute the experience of disencounter, as the construction of stereotyped characters, the anonymity; the building of disencountered dialogues; the building of monologues which, sometimes, can be seen as a testimony; the quotation; the irony and the absence of a resolution of the dramatic conflict at the end of the narratives

Aesthetics · Art · Humanities · Irony · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Linguistics and Education Research · Literature, Culture, and Criticism

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