A expressão do poder na produção literária de Bruno de Menezes

Abstract

From the perspective that the composition of literary narratives, the development of the action from power relations is frequent, the hypothesis was formulated that relationships of this nature stand out as aesthetic components of the action in these works. Although without any concerns regarding philosophical concepts, Michel Foucault’s principles on power are used as basis for this research, mainly addressed in the book Microphysics of Power. In addition, Karl Marx’s concept of the power manifested in labor relations in the production process of society will also be considered. In this sense, a relationship is established with the study of the structures that make up the social environment, through microphysics, the principle of which includes issues related to the struggle for social equality in labor, as well as to the molecular formation of society. These concepts are based on a power manifested on the most varied levels and different aspects of a social network. In these circumstances, the scope of the literary work extends with the reproduction of these relations in the narrative action, through the appropriation of this resource in the composition of its characters. To support this thesis, the works of writer Bruno de Menezes, from the state of Pará, were taken as literary object. Divided into four sections, the first addresses manifestation of power from reality to fiction; the second, forms of power manifestation as a practice of the different levels of society transposed to literary work; the third, biographical aspects of the author, with emphasis on his life trajectory, as a person who is attentive to social problems, engaged in union and cooperative movements, and who brought this experience to his work; finally, the fourth section will focus in the author’s literary works, focusing on the power relations manifested in his poetic work and in his fictional narrative.