Trabalho, Brutalidade e desumanização na representação do protagonista Edgar Wilson em De gados e homens de Ana Paula Maia

Abstract

The present study makes a critical Reading of obra De Gados e Homens (2013) , by the writer and screenwriter Ana Paula Maia . The Research established a discussion about the precarious working conditions suffered by protagonist Edgar Wilson with the process of dehumanization. The following themes were selected : work , violence and dehumanization in order to order to analyze such elements in the literary production of Ana Paula Maia. In the Reading of the work, contraditions between formal, social , cultural and econonic elements present in Maia´s text were identified , as presupposittions in the analysis and understanding of fiction.The narrative highlights labor relations in a context marked by violence , precarious working conditions , social , inequality , brutality and alienation. Working conditions imply the constituition of the protagonista`s psychologicaly , emotional, social and economic dimensions ´, being considered mechanisms of alienating , reproduction and dehumanization of social relationships. The theoretical foundations of the following studies were used for the development of the research: The Human Condition by the author Hannah Arendt (2009); Literature , violence and melancholy by the author Jaime Ginzburg (2012) and Realism and reality in Literatur Tânia Pellegrin (2009). It is concludes that the work points out elements related to contemporary literature of the social reality of the worker who, surrounded by precarious wording conditions , violence and alienation , becomes dehumanized and reproduces a dynamics of violence as a strategy internalized by the way that shapes it , weakening his existence and human condition .