BRUTALIZED FACES IN THE BRAZILIAN LITERATURE: ANTI-HERO CONFIGUTARIONS ON ANA PAULA MAIA’S WRITING.
Keywords: Contemporary literature. Naturalism. Romanticism. Pulp fiction. Pop literature.
The thesis aims to study how is it that the anti-heroism is formulated in the carioca writer’s work, Ana Paula Maia. The writing presents marginalized beings, men on the verge of the social abyss, struggling like animals to survive in an urban system of brutalization and dehumanization. Trash-men, garbage, violence, cruelty in the human relationships, lack of empathy, exploitation, decay and death are lead elements in the narrative. All of them are powered by the aesthetic elaboration that the author accomplishes with the characters: the novel’s protagonists are urban anti-heroes, garbage-men, bombers, butchers, bodies cremators. They are the brutalized faces introduced on the title. Starting with the analyses of the brutes trilogy, completed by the three novels: Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos (2013), Carvão animal (2013) e O trabalho sujo dos outros (2011); Therefore, the thesis tends to comprehend the kind of anti-hero that is presented in the work, beginning with the hypothesis that it is a hybrid construction, resulted from the fusion of three different aesthetic tendencies: two from the past and one more contemporary: the Romanticism, the Naturalism and the Pulp fiction/pop literature. It defends that, by choosing the junction of three distinct aesthetic literary currents, Maia introduces in the contemporary frame of the Brazilian literature a different kind of aesthetic character, not much explored yet by other authors. So, the purpose here is to understand how these tendencies convert to mold the anti-hero created by Ana Paula Maia.