A literatura e a desobediência ao discurso oficial: a crítica ao autoritarismo em Augusto Roa Bastos e Mario Vargas Llosa

Abstract

This post-graduation thesis presents an analytical reading of the short stories of Paraguayan Augusto Roa Bastos “La excavación”, “La gran solución” and “El prisioneiro” in comparison to the novel La ciudad y los perros of Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa. Such study consists in observing the representations of authoritarianism in those works that, permeated by tough political contexts of social repression, present from two different perspectives a mimesis of the authoritarian political reality of Paraguay and Peru between the 40s and the 60s. In this sense, based on the reading reached on this study, it appears that the fictional works of the Paraguayan and Peruvian authors selected present a disobedience to the official discourse, inserting elements through fiction that require the filling of gaps in the history of their countries. The theoretical framework adopted to support this study is formed by the Critical Theory of Society, based on the thoughts of theorists such as Walter Benjamim and Theodor Adorno. The literary criticism taken as support for the reflections of this study is basically Latin American production, with emphasis on texts by Ángel Rama and Nestor Canclini.