Representar, repetir, reelaborar: Calibre 22 e a violência na obra de Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

This master’s dissertation focuses on the analysis of Rubem Fonseca's production. In a specific way, the processes of representation, repetition and working through, in means of a guide short story: “Calibre 22”, present in the book of the same name published in 2017. The work follows a path of analysis using the transposition of the Freudian psychoanalytic technique, present in the text Remember, Repeat and Working Through, for literary analysis. To this end, a path of introduction, resumption of the critical framework and some small pre-existing discussions are made. Then, we turn to understanding the ways of representation, based on the verisimilitude effect, building a parallel between reality, representation, and memory. Dealing with representation as a remembrance act, a simulacrum of trauma. That said, the structural analysis of the short story “Calibre 22”, in aesthetic details, helps to pave the way for the repetitions that are so recurrent in Fonseca's work, pointing out the most recurrent ones. Explaining how and why such an extensive production, spanning more than fifty-five years, is repeated so much. Then, it discusses the main repetition in the author’s work: the violence. Conceptualizing it and approaching it, as the repetition that it is, as a symptom and trauma and, therefore, capable of being the elaborative reason. Finally, it re-elaborates (Woking through) this aesthetic conception of genius and reaffirms the function of literature from the perspective of Umberto Eco (2001) of teaching us how to deal with life. This entire journey is made with the theoretical contribution of authors such as Jaime Ginzburg (2013), Raymond Williams (2007), Karl Erik Schollhammer (2013), Luiz Costa Lima (1981), among many others, who helps to elaborate reality.