Patrícia Melo: o obsessivo (des) compasso em Valsa Negra

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to discuss the male obsession on the work Valsa Negra (2010) of Patrícia Melo, as well as to place the mentioned work with a discuss about literature, literary canon, contemporaneity and to analyze aspects of romantic relationships, by psychoanalytic and sociological bias. For both, two chapters will be necessaries, being the first chapter to treat about aspects of literary canon, feminist critical and about the concepts of violence, and the second one to analyze the work, under the bias of the protagonist’s obsession, with discussions of these issues in love relationships; desire/ jealousy/ betrayal. Being Valsa Negra (2010) a work which, according to the feminist critical, challenge the patriarchal patterns present on literary canonic works, trough the main characters, it’s possible to observe, from Silvia Alexim Nunes (2000), Affonso Romano Sant’anna (1993) that hurt, pain and desire are not necessarily driven by female character, but are likely to be generated by both the male and female figure.