A melancolia como provocação à resistência em Tristessa e Nove noites

Abstract

The main object in this study is analyze as narrative of resistance, the novels Tristessa by Jack Kerouac and Nove Noites by Bernardo Carvalho. It hypothesized that both form narratives of resistance innate to writing (BOSI, 2012), when the resistance is not the theme of work, but manifested in the construction of the characters and the unfolding of the plot. In this case, the element used as a way to express resistance is melancholy. It intended to verify through a case study, how both novels work representations of the subject in its relation to death based on melancholic process and how melancholy is connected to an attitude of resistance prevalent in writing. Thus, it examines the melancholy as pathology (FREUD, 2005) and aesthetic element, as well as the process of narrative resistance merges ethics and aesthetics. For this, it considered the social contexts in which narratives were written and how they indicate that each novel does a social criticism to an oppressive force at the time of their publication. During this study, through comparative analysis, it certified that themes as the loss, the death, the melancholy remoteness, the social marginalization and the real transience are common to both novels.