80 shots: violence and segregation in Leite derramado and Essa gente, of the writer Chico Buarque.
This article seeks to investigate the ways in which the works Leite derramado (2009) and Essa gente (2019), by writer Chico Buarque, are developments of urban fiction. As Karl Erik Schollhammer (2009) says, contemporary Brazilian literature gives way to short stories of everyday life and a more inti...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Letras de Hoje (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/46202 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/46202 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | City Chico Buarque violence Ciudad violencia Cidade Violência |
| Sumario: | This article seeks to investigate the ways in which the works Leite derramado (2009) and Essa gente (2019), by writer Chico Buarque, are developments of urban fiction. As Karl Erik Schollhammer (2009) says, contemporary Brazilian literature gives way to short stories of everyday life and a more intimate narrative, a fact that does not neglect social criticism. It is from this perspective that the urban theme is placed within the narratives listed, in a disinterested, allegorical and acidic way. The city in both narratives takes shape and can be observed as a character. The idealization of the urban structure, a utopia, is not realized in the Brazilian context (Gomes, 2008) and its dismantling and ruins are the paths along which the protagonists, Eulálio and Duarte, travel. The ruins of an unfulfilled Rio de Janeiro are similar to the ruins of men's lives. And like any scenario of disorganized urbanization, cities, and social inequality, violence will be a privileged topic – be it urban violence or the structural violence that is the founder of the Brazilian worldview. |
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