Corpo, abjeção e erotismo em A céu aberto, de João Gilberto Noll, e Mãos de cavalo, de Daniel Galera

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the intertwining between João Gilberto Noll and Daniel Galera in the artistic composition of representation of crisis and constitution of post modern identity, through the use of the body centered on abjection and eroticism, in two novels: A céu aberto (1996) and Mãos de cavalo (2006). The work, of a qualitative nature, is carried out based on bibliographical analysis, using the theories regarding postmodernism by Hutcheon (1991), Perrone-Moisés (2016), Jameson (1991; 2006), Villaça (1996) and other authors, as well as sociological studies by Foucault (2014), Bataille (2021), Kristeva (1982), Frank (1991), Bourdieu (2008), Bauman (2005; 2021), Han (2017a; 2017b; 2021), among others, to reflect on identity categorizations, the interrelation with the body, abjection and eroticism, in addition to their manifestations in society. Furthermore, for the analysis of the object, this study encompasses investigations in the area of contemporary Brazilian literature. The narratives of João Gilberto Noll and Daniel Galera present uses of textual subjectivity that emphasize the feeling of displacement and escape, sometimes attesting to the search for identity, sometimes to the metamorphosis of the Self in the world and in alterity, composing a vision of the subject in oscillation between his Self and the Other, in an amalgam that transposes postmodern uncertainty. The body serves as a point of confluence between the two novels, as its materiality becomes the only comprehensible point in worlds and identities that, in the eyes of the protagonists, are in constant metamorphosis, unstable and fragmented. It is from it that their identity anxieties are represented, amidst sexual violence and self mutilation; from vomit, enjoyment, feces, piss, sweat and blood, the body expresses itself. Abjection and eroticism act, in this sense, as devices to understand these bodily experiences. From a social and physical abjection, in which the erotic act is used to ensure socio-identity dominance, as well as to represent the irrational desire for identity belonging, to a psychological abjection, in which the erotic act is aligned with the mutilation of the flesh to anesthetize and outline the identity being, the literary arts of both authors trace their intricate path.