Os discursos do poder e o arquivo do mal em O Nome da Rosa de Umberto Eco

Abstract

Narratives such as Umberto Eco´s The Name of the Rose presents the researcher with a vast field of possibilities to study. Among these, one can perceive the importance of space and discourses of power that constitute these narratives as well as the dispute for its control. Therefore, this dissertation will try to demonstrate that the space of the library portraited in Eco´s book and its contents were regulated by relations of power that triggered an attitude of resistance. Ergo, this work is divided into three chapters: the first one, which aims to study space, gender and characters analyzes the library as part of the cultural imaginary, the fiction´s observance to the detective genre and finally the confrontation between the characters of Guilherme de Baskerville and Jorge de Burgos. The second chapter presents the library as a space set by relations of power, highlighting the unbreakable link between archive and archon and its death drive. The last chapter will approach the dichotomies interdiction and transgression and profane and sacred regarding the narrative. On that account, our theoretical support comes from the studies on archive and transgression developed by Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, with the assistance of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Roger Caillois and in the first chapter, the theoretical basis was mainly stablished by the study of Umberto Eco and Tzetan Todorov.