Name: CAIO GOBBI GERLIN
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 29/11/2021
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETE GERLÂNIA CARON SANDRINI | External Examiner * |
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Advisor * |
| RAIMUNDO NONATO BARBOSA DE CARVALHO | Internal Alternate * |
| SÉRGIO DA FONSECA AMARAL | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The present work analyzes the relationship between art and society in which one
affects the other. It is in everyday life that art has its inspiration and makes itself
present. Through this perspective, the work Vidas secas was analyzed and the
Brazilian historical circumstances that this impacting narrative of Velho Graça
represents in the field of literary autonomy. The theoretical interlocution, besides the
critical fortune on the fictional production of Graciliano Ramos, will take place mainly
in interfaçe Thomas Hobbes and Georg Lukács. With the former, the dialogue will be
triggered with the category of the State of nature, developed in the work Leviathan
(1651). It is not the intention of this researcher, it must be emphasized, to accept
Hobbes` arguments; on the contrary, the objective is to appropriate his analyses,
having in mind the following challenge: to show how the historical conditions of Brazil
- a colonized country that until now has been bled by foreign powers - condemns a
good part of its population to the tragic conditions of a historical State of nature.
Thus, this research defends the \\\\\\\"State of human history\\\\\\\" in its interaction with nature.
With the latter, in turn, the dialogical interaction will take place in view of the
categories of aesthetic realism developed by the Hungarian thinker during much of
his life. With this, it is assumed that the literary work of reference of this study is a
singular example of Brazilian aesthetic realism.
Keywords: Art. Society. Everyday life. Literature.
