Realismo traumático na novela Na colônia penal

Abstract

This dissertation will address traumatic realism focusing on the fictional prose novel entitled In the Penal Colony, published in 1919, by Franz Kafka and the graphic novel, published in 2011, by Sylvain Ricard and Maël. This analysis seeks to compare the objects of study to understand how traumatic realism is expressed in these novels. This is produced by the manifestation of violence by the authoritarian and oppressive figure (Official) and is directed to the martyred character (Condemned), through the presence of a sentence that will lead him to violence, oppression, torture, trauma and death. The analysis will go beyond the text and the graphic novel, which enhances the perception of the characteristics of traumatic realism. For this, we consider some theoretical approaches about graphic novels and realisms: traumatic and abject, from the studies of Hal Foster (2017), Karl Erik Schøllhammer (2013) and Julia Kristeva (1982). And regarding the relation of graphic novel with the themes of trauma and shock, we use the conceptions of Gina Ross (2014), Sigmund Freud (1980) and Walter Benjamin (1986).