O canto do bode humano: exílio e estranheza na ambivalência trágica da Galileia contemporânea

Abstract

The present work studies the exile and strangeness as one of the most tragic experience of our time problematized by the novel Galileia of the whiter Ronaldo Correia de Brito, through the route of the three main characters: Ismael, Davi and Adonias. We begin by discussing the work of Raymond Williams with attention to the aspects we consider to be central in his theory: commun experience, revolution and sacrifice, tension. The author's tragic theory allows an orientation that the simples use of the term tragic leaves to be desired. Then we approached the studies of Zygmunt Bauman, whose theory of Modernity, ambivalence and waste, in dialogue with Williams’ theory, bases our reflections on the formation of a modern ethos of order and schism that creates contemporary exile and strangeness, one of the most tragic aspects of our time. Starting from the fundamental assumption that macrossocial and microssocial are intrinsically linked, we continue to comment on brief relationships of the novel with greek tragedy, the social tragedy in Williams, and the ambivalence modernity in Bauman. We bring to the fore reflections that confront theoretical aspects of literary regionalism assuming a position: Galileia is a contemporary novel, marked by macrossocial pressures and whose narrator is inserted in tensions of Modernity. We analyze the space of the novel, the space before the arrival of the cousins Ismael, Davi e Adonias to the farm Galileia, and the inner space where the main characters transit and suffer their tensions. We finish with the route of each one of the main characters of the novel. Ismael, the stigmatized whose ambivalence is self-constructed, the outcast rejected by the family; Davi, the traumatized by the rape in childhood, that is born whit the marks of foreignness, white, blue eyes, blond hair, and who is loving for the family for whit he feels only scorn; and Adonias, the narrator-character, the exiling in constant tension, who reaffirms the rejection of the origins that he shares with his family and whose configuration in the novel allows to read an allegory of the human waste, the unresolved state of anti-resiliense and chronic ambivalence of the human goat in tension.