Erotismo e poder na poética de O anjo do quarto dia, de Gilvan Lemos

Abstract

The present work has the objective of analyzing the erotic elements present in the novel "The Angel of the Fourth Day" (1981), by the novelist from Pernambuco, Gilvan Lemos. This analysis aims to address the relationship of eroticism with the social relations of power and what is violence symbolized by the expressiveness of his work. As a complement to the research, we propose a description of the socio-historical context in which the text of Gilvan Lemos was produced, envisaging reading in the allegory of his text a satire to political power and the character of social denunciation in detriment of the values of patriarchy, Religious practice and the unscrupulous practice of politics in the Brazilian scenario. The various facets of sexual activity are flung open in the lines of the novel studied with the intention of denouncing the basements of power. The theoretical scope used to support the work involves the discussions about the concepts of eroticism proposed by George Bataille (1980) Eliane Robert Moraes (1985), Lúcia Castelo Branco (2004) and Dominique Maingueneau (2010), associated mainly to reflections Philosophical and sociological questions about regulation, power and domination by Michel Foucault (1988) and Pierre Bourdieu (1998). We emphasize the importance of this research as a form of contribution to unearthing from anonymity a novel of great representation from the fictional point of view, contributing to the author's critical fortune.