Desconstrução do histórico e do policial em Agosto, de Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

This work aims at analyzing the novel Agosto (1990), by Rubem Fonseca, through the deconstruction of the sub-genres that are present in the text: the historical and the detective. The development of this research is based on the comprehension of how the historical and detective narratives are joined into the corpus under analysis. Fonseca reminds – through one of the greatest characteristics of his work, the detective narrative – an important fact in the Brazilian historiography, as the text handles the historical events of 1954, the political facts that culminated in Getúlio Vargas’ suicide, the president of the republic in this time. However, the narrative construction does not follow the classical principles that guide the historical and detective sub-genres. Thus, it is understood that this deconstruction derivates from the prerogatives of the Postmodernism, period that the artist innovates in the texts elaboration, confronting the tradition and, in the attempt to subvert the conventions proposes a criticism in the system that is inserted.