Paradoxo do trágico como efeito do patriarcado decadente, na poética de Marília Arnaud

Abstract

The present work interprets the tragic paradox as an expression of the existential condition within the female characters in the novel Liturgia do Fim (2016) by Marília Arnaud. The analysis is considered with the theoretical contribution of Eagleton (2013), Williams (2002), Foucault (2019), Bourdieu (2020), among others. The work is configured in a multifaceted context, comprising regional aspects of the Brazilian Northeast in the end of the 20th century, as well as characters whose existences are marked by the presence of a decaying patriarchy, reflecting the socio-cultural context of the historical phase reproduced in the narrative scenery. This discussion is based on the conjecture that the decaying patriarchy, in Arnaud's work, is plausibly interpreted as a mechanism that drives the tragic condition of female characters. The thesis emphasizes the paradox of the tragic as a condition of the fictionalized existences in the narrative to the imprisonment to the status quo, to the submission to the male or tragic resistance, as a desperate search for freedom from the oppressive system.