Percepção carnavalesca do mundo: uma leitura da peça Lisbela e o prisioneiro

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to expose elements from the carnavalesca perception in the world at the play Lisbela and the prisoner (1964/2003), by Osman Lins (1924-1978). For this, it was taken into consideration the poetic of “opposite” presented in the text so that it was possible to use as evidence the concept of carnavalization in the literature. In our reading, it was explored, especially, the relation of the text with society imitated without neglecting its structural wealth. To understand how Lins has incorporated the carnival culture elements in the structure of the play, we look on Mikhail Bakhtin (1999, 2013) and Roberto DaMatta (1986) studies about the millennial culture coming from the carnival, as a social complex phenomenon. Both authors believe in a kind of duality (ordinary versus extraordinary) in the world and human life perception. So this concept was fundamental to understand the text profoundly. Although the author organizes the text elements in a way which it can be implicitly suggested the extraordinary order of the facts, focused on the disorder, as well as in the carnival atmosphere. Because of this the carnivalesque reversal, constructed fictionally, the submissives characters borrowed the power, in a kind of inversion of the established social order. To demonstrate how this hypothesis is realized in literary terms, we also considered studies on the dramatic text, in especially, texts from Anne Ubersfeld, (2013), Jean-Pierre Ryngaert (2013) and Patrice Pavis (2008), because we understand poetics of opposites as an aspect of artistic language. The absence of detailed studies on the presence of this aesthetic opposites, as well as the lack of due focus on structural piece wealth, led us to choose the corpus and, as a result, we wish to contribute to the brazilian literature studies.