Uma máquina para porcos: entre figuras animalescas, horror e violência nas narrativas contemporâneas Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs e Porco de Raça

Abstract

This study aims to present and analyze the animalistic and violent experiences experienced by the characters in the contemporary narratives Porco de Raça (2021) and Amnesia: a Machine For Pigs (2013), in order to verify how the effects of preconcept and the submission of minorities to social demands and/or their Impositions of an oppressive culture influence daily life, two subjects involved in entanglements. To achieve this objective, we use the comparatist method, considering comparison as an analytical method capable of, in a dialectical movement of approximation and distance, drawing for an academic dinner a literary text and a game. The literary text Porco de Raça, by Bruno Ribeiro, and the game Amnesia: a Machine for Pigs, developed by The Chinese Room, present the effects of the preconcept and submission, demonstrating for the reader/player only the process of dehumanization of two characters, but also the delirium and its consequences. effect of animalization of the minorities involved in the narratives. To carry out this work, we used: Sigmund Freud (2006), H. P. Lovecraft (2020), Walter Benjamin (1986; 1994), Hannah Arendt (2009; 2011) and Theodor Adorno (2008) as theoretical contributions to observe the horror and violence present in narratives, as well as Tzvetan Todorov, Gérard Genette and Mieke Bal to address their narratological aspects. Given the scarcity of studies on this topic in the graduate programs of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) and Mato Grosso do Sul, this initiative presents an innovative and original proposal that combines literature and videogames in a comparative analysis of the corpora, given that both construct complex and critical narratives about horror and violence. This approach broadens the horizons of language studies and highlights the relevance of new media in the interpretation of contemporary narrative forms.