O projeto político-estético-ideológico nos romances de Darcy Ribeiro: da violência ao erotismo

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the political-aesthetic-ideological project of Darcy Ribeiro's novels, which are Maíra (1976), O Mulo (1981), Utopia Selvagem (1982) and Migo (1988), from the perspective of violence and of eroticism. For this, the dialogue between the anthropologist, the politician, among other profiles of the Montes Claros intellectual is established with the novelist. From this approach, to discuss the two proposed perspectives, we have the representation of subordinate characters in the foreground of the works and how violence, whether objective or subjective, permeates Ribeiro's literary production. The author, when elaborating his novels with the continuous representation of the modus operandi of the formation of the Brazilian people based on colonization, slavery and dictatorship and how the effects of these events still reverberate in the organization of these people, elaborates a project based on anguish. The objective of this political-aesthetic-ideological project is to contribute to reaching the people's state of lucidity, whose purpose is social reconfiguration. To support this analysis, regarding the aesthetics of a Marxist bias and the definition of ideology, this thesis will be supported by the writings of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Karl Marx; on the concept of politics, we will be based on the production of Hannah Arendt; the theme of violence will be approached from the writings of Slavoj Zizek; about the constant of eroticism in darcyan literature, we will analyze how it, in the wake of, mainly, Georges Bataille, in the economy of excessive spending, configures itself as a counterpoint to violence. Added to the dialogue are the reflections of Michael Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Vilém Flusser and Ernst Bloch, among others, in addition to the non-literary productions of Darcy Ribeiro.