Dissolução e aleatoriedade: a estética do romance na obra Almoço nu de William S. Burroughs. -
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2011-09-12
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Encinas, Luis Fernando Catelan [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Como consequência da experiência histórica, as formas de dominação ganharam cada vez mais espaço na produção literária, até se constituírem num dos principais temas do romance ao longo de todo o século XX. Vários escritores configuraram esteticamente o problema do poder, desenvolvendo uma narrativa cujo tema central é a dominação; dominação essa perpetrada pelos totalitarismos de direita e esquerda. Mas é na obra do escritor norte-americano William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) que os mecanismos de dominação ganharão um novo estatuto, em especial na obra Almoço Nu (1959), na qual aparecem configurados os novos modos de dominação que emergiram a partir da Segunda Grande Guerra: monopólios, burocracias, estruturas de controle, etc. Outras características formais, não menos relevantes, acompanham a emergência das novas temáticas, principalmente os signos de dissolução e aleatoriedade que percorrem o livro de Burroughs, abolindo em definitivo qualquer exigência de unidade configuradora ao instaurar uma nova combinação entre forma de expressão e forma de conteúdo. De qualquer modo, um estudo do romance de Burroughs que leve em consideração todas essas particularidades exige um aparato conceitual apropriado. Neste sentido, a obra de Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) fornece alguns elementos teóricos para a análise de Almoço Nu, a exemplo da noção de sociedades de controle, retirada da obra de Burroughs. Assim, o presente estudo busca apreender de que forma o romance Almoço Nu nos aponta as transformações temáticas e composicionais no romance da segunda metade do século XX correspondentes à experiência histórica na qual o problema da dominação veio a ocupar lugar de destaque nas produções literárias
As a consequence of historical experience, forms of domination have gained more space in the literary production, even if they constitute one of the main themes of the novel throughout the twentieth century. Several writers have shaped the aesthetic problem of power, developing a narrative whose central theme is domination, domination perpetrated by the totalitarian regimes of right and left. But it is the work of American writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) that the mechanisms of domination will gain a new status, especially in the work Naked Lunch (1959), in which they appear set new modes of domination that emerged from the Second World War: monopolies, bureaucratic structures, control, etc. Other formal features, not less relevant, accompanying the emergence of new themes, especially the signs of dissolution and randomness that run through the book of Burroughs, ultimately abolishing any requirement to establish a unit set up by combining new form of expression and form of content. In any case, a study of the Burroughs novel that takes into account all these specific requires a conceptual apparatus appropriate. In this sense, the work of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) provides some theoretical elements for the analysis of Naked Lunch, like the notion of societies of control, withdrawal from work of Burroughs. Thus, this study seeks to learn how the novel Naked Lunch points out the thematic and compositional changes in the novel of the second half of the twentieth century, corresponding to the historical experience in which the problem of domination came to occupy a prominent place in literary productions
As a consequence of historical experience, forms of domination have gained more space in the literary production, even if they constitute one of the main themes of the novel throughout the twentieth century. Several writers have shaped the aesthetic problem of power, developing a narrative whose central theme is domination, domination perpetrated by the totalitarian regimes of right and left. But it is the work of American writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) that the mechanisms of domination will gain a new status, especially in the work Naked Lunch (1959), in which they appear set new modes of domination that emerged from the Second World War: monopolies, bureaucratic structures, control, etc. Other formal features, not less relevant, accompanying the emergence of new themes, especially the signs of dissolution and randomness that run through the book of Burroughs, ultimately abolishing any requirement to establish a unit set up by combining new form of expression and form of content. In any case, a study of the Burroughs novel that takes into account all these specific requires a conceptual apparatus appropriate. In this sense, the work of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) provides some theoretical elements for the analysis of Naked Lunch, like the notion of societies of control, withdrawal from work of Burroughs. Thus, this study seeks to learn how the novel Naked Lunch points out the thematic and compositional changes in the novel of the second half of the twentieth century, corresponding to the historical experience in which the problem of domination came to occupy a prominent place in literary productions
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Burroughs, William S., 1914-, Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995, Literatura, Poder (Filosofia)
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ENCINAS, Luis Fernando Catelan. Dissolução e aleatoriedade: a estética do romance na obra Almoço nu de William S. Burroughs. -. 2011. 100 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências de Marília, 2011.