As linguagens do autoritarismo em O Coronel e o Lobisomem, de José Cândido de Carvalho, e em Sargento Getúlio, de João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Abstract

The comparison between O coronel e o Lobisomem by José Candido de Carvalho and Sargento Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro examines how character narrators s discourses reveal shared assumptions in society about the power structures that are narrated and represented in the context, sustained by violence. In these works, we identify conventions admitting various forms of repression, from subtle attitudes, verbal and physical agression. Thus, the main objective of this research is to understand the textual relations between narratives and social and historical contexts marked by authoritarianism of state and legitimized by the actions of members of society who work keys for maintenance and permanence. Based on the theoretical perspective of Critical Theory of Society, with authors such as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Raymundo Faoro reflection takes place from the narratives of how Brazilian society was formed in historical processes that have in common authoritarian structures. The voices of Colonel and police joined a network of practices that were being renewed for the maintenance of privileges, especially the perceptions of authority that they possess and that conflict in a urban space more modernized. This process is evidenced by the structure of narratives, which provide critical readings that suggest distrusting unitary narrations, since the character of incompleteness and suspicion about the protagonists and the plot itself, questioning also the processes of writing history and fiction as representations of the dominant ideology.