Assunção de Salviano na antinomia comunismo-cristianismo: a busca do paraíso perdido

Abstract

This thesis examines the effects of archetypal-mythological junction - constituting the imaginary communist and the imagery of Christian Doctrine - in the search for Paradise Lost, as presented in the trajectory of the characters of the Assunção de Salviano by Antonio Callado. In this way, through a multidisciplinary approach through the main indications: Mircea Eliade, Raoul Girardet, Carl Gustav Jung, Gaston Bachelard, Northrop Frye, Gilbert Durand, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in addition to the imagery of the Christian Bible, it is possible to notice there is this plot an intense antagonism between the ideology of the Communist Party and the Christian Doctrine. However, both are under the heritage of the sacred, the nostalgia of a glorious past, the dream of a bright future and appeal to the archetype of the Redeemer. Thus, the communist revolutionary intent of Salgado character under the shadow archetype motivates the emergence of four major political myths: Unity, the Golden Age, the Plot Demonic and Salvador with an effervescence oneiric impetus on Redemptory’s role by Manuel Salviano. Through the contact with this character that presents some forms of expression based on Christian doctrine and biblical imagery in his role as "miracle worker". Also, it is possible to verify the influence of the following archetypes: the Redeemer, the Prophet and the Archetype Christian cooperating the way, to the Christian conversion process. Thus, the crossing of the characters is permeated by the antinomy Communism / Christianity, Earthly Paradise / Heavenly Jerusalem, that are problematized by the composition of a system of oppositions: atheism / devotion, materialism / spirituality, anger / resignation, revolutionary / miracle worker, Hell / Heaven all of these culminating in a kind of final confrontation between good and evil, Christ and Antichrist, antagonistic forces from the myth of Apocalyptic Conflict present in the fictional confrontation between Salviano and Salgado. Consequently, this mythical-archetypical reading reveals is a typical evolutionary effect on Salviano’s character that we call archetypal-mythological mimicry, resulting in an evaluative reversal of opposites.