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O Drama da Geometria Íntima em O Agressor, de Rosário Fusco

2016; SAGE Publishing; Issue: 50 Linguagem: Inglês

1477-9021

Marta Dantas da Silva,

Linguistics and Education Research

EnglishPublished for the first time in 1943, O agressor is the first fictional work by the Brazilian writer Rosario Fusco, who was well-known as the most active and irreverent of the young founders of the modernist journal Verde. His debut as a writer was noticed by critics who took him as hermetic and accused him of artificial transplantation of the kafkian and surrealist ambiances. In the past few years, some critics, as Ledo Ivo, highlighted the innovative aspects of this novel, but Fusco’s prose has not yet emerged from the underground history of Brazilian literature. O agressor tells the story of David, an accountant of a millinery shop who believed that his boss wanted to kill him because he had heard sounds that resembled a cat meow, but they could also be the moaning of his boss's wife. After this scene, David experiences the conflict between his psychological and real life, that is, between his inside and his outside world. This paper aims to show how this dialectic between the inside and the outside appears in the protagonist is relation with the places, especially the one where he lives. This study also tries to understand how the porosity of these two apparently conflicting “worlds” reveals David’s tragical characterization. With this purpose Gaston Barchelard’s phenomenology of the imagination will be employed. portuguesO agressor, publicado pela primeira vez em 1943, e a primeira obra ficcional do brasileiro Rosario Fusco ate entao conhecido como o mais irreverente e atuante entre os jovens fundadores da revista modernista Verde. Seu advento nao passou despercebido pela critica que o tomou como hermetico, acusado de ser uma transplantacao artificial seja do clima kafkiano, seja do surrealismo. Nos ultimos anos, poucos criticos, entre eles Ledo Ivo, ressaltaram o vanguardismo de O agressor, mas a prosa fusquiana ainda nao emergiu da historia subterrânea da literatura brasileira. O agressor narra a historia de David, um contador de uma chapelaria que acreditava que seu patrao queria mata-lo porque ouvira sons que pareciam miados de gato, mas que poderiam ser gemidos da esposa do patrao. A partir deste fato, David vive o conflito entre sua vida psicologica e a realidade, entre o dentro e o fora. Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar como esta dialetica e problematizada na relacao do protagonista com os espacos, sobretudo o que ele habita, e como a porosidade desses “mundos” aparentemente opostos revela David como personagem tragico. Para tanto, convoco a fenomenologia da imaginacao de Gaston Bachelard.