Espetacularização da violência e a resistência na contística de Clarice Lispector e Caio Fernando Abreu

Abstract

This article analyzes the spectacularization of violence and resistance found in Brazilian short stories produced after 1964, in two short stories A lingua do “P”, (1974) by Clarice Lispector, and Terça-feira Gorda (1982), by Caio Fernando Abreu. These productions come closer as they serve as an important mechanism for contesting, directly and/or indirectly, the dictatorial regime established in the country. We will take as theoretical foundation the studies of Alfredo Bosi (2002), Augusto Sarmento-Pantoja (2013) and Sandra Pesavento (2006), in an attempt to assimilate how the tales of such decades are intrinsically linked to a will to resist, conceiving the voices to the silenced by oppression and providing reflections on the coercive practices that led the individual to rethink their human condition.