Imagens e sentidos da reificação em Os Corumbas e Gaibéus

Abstract

This research has as a main goal to analyze, in novels Os Corumbas (1933), by Brazilian writer Amando Fontes, e Gaibéus (1939), by Portuguese writer Alves Redol, the existence of images and meaning which establish dialogical relations with the reification phenomenon. Draws attention, in both the works, to the creation of aspects that can represent situations of human reification, in which the characters are subjected to do, subjects to perform independent actions of their control and wish. As specific objectives of this work, it was chosen: a) investigate the sociocultural context of Brasil and Portugal in the 1930s, intending to show the political and social scenario in which the writers of this decade were set; b) verify the impact of the 1930 Brazilian novel on Portuguese neorealist literary work; c) explore the reification phenomenon background knowledge, starting from the concept of Marxian fetishism and its subsequent re- elaboration by the sociologist and literary critic Georg Lukács, under the term reification; d) highlight how the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, through its several languages, made this phenomenon a constituent element of their works; e) through comparative analysis, investigate how Os Corumbas (1933), by Amando Fontes and Gaibéus (1939), by Alves Redol, present in its constitution textual elements that create images and meaning of reification. As a result, it intends to highlight the capacity of the literary art to build aesthetically strong impact narratives, given the socio-political thematic bias very dear to most writers of the time in which the works are inserted. In the analyzed novels, written in the polarized decade of 1930, the representation of the problems in the social structure, which harm and reify the “other” according to Luis Bueno, constitutive elements are made from own artistic works. Using bibliographical research method, this work has as theoretical support the studies made by Luís Bueno (2015), Maria Luiza Ritzel Remédios (1986), Carlos Reis (1981), Alexandre Pinheiro Torres (1977), Antônio José Saraiva e Lopes (s.d), Eric Hobsbawn (1995), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Georg Lukács (1885-1970), and others, that were needed here.