(Re)Aprender a rezar na era da técnica: experiência e aura nos romances da tetralogia O Reino, de Gonçalo M. Tavares

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the narratives that make up the tetralogy The Kingdom, which is composed of the books: A man: Klaus Klump (2007 [2003]), The machine by Joseph Walser (n/i [2004]), Jerusalem (2006 [2004]) and Learning to pray in the age of technology (2008 [2007]). In short, all the novels speak to the idea of the supremacy of the machine over the human. Particularly, each of the narratives develops its own story, without establishing a direct relationship between them, even though they are directed towards a single context that, possibly, is thinking about evil in its entirety, considering a crisis of modernity. Therefore, we intend to compare the main characters with the characters from the parallel stories, which appear in all the works, as well as the plot of each one, so that, in the end, as the research progresses, we can find the point that connects all the narratives of the tetralogy. To do so, we will read theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud and Giorgio Agamben, on whom we will base our research.