A vida como aflição e desespero: uma leitura de Angústia de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

This paper aims to study the anguish of senses in Graciliano Ramos, most notably in his narrative Angústia (1936), a work in which this feeling choking the world and the experience of Luis da Silva, character - narrator's third novel writer Alagoas to understand the feeling of anguish, the use of reflections Sren Aabye Kierkegaard, contained in his book, the O conceito de angústia: a simple psychological - demonstrative reflection directed to the dogmatic problem of hereditary sin of Vigilius Haufniensis, written text, originally, in 1844. Recognized rightly, as a philosopher, theologian and attentive reader of literary works, Kierkegaard confesses, however, have been worth more recurrently, from the perspective of psychology, considering it more appropriate to revealing the nuances that characterize the anguish, as recorded in his own study. Aware of the fictional character of our object of study, call, our aesthetic analysis of anguish, the writings of Georg Lukács, more precisely, his A teoria do romance: a philosophical historical essay on the ways of the great epic, written between the years from 1914-1915, a time in which Lukács was taken by the feeling of anxiety, given the European context. The choice of Georg Lukács is due to the proximity of the author and Kierkegaard, approach, this, highlighted by the Hungarian literary theorist himself, in his book. In this theoretical - methodological apparatus, we look back also on Brazilian writings of Antonio Candido, in particular on his work Literatura e sociedade: theory studies and literary history (1965) rich in affinities with the assumptions of Lukács. In addition to the theoretical and critical work of Antonio Candido, we make use also of his reading of Angústia in Ficção e confissão (1945); Otto Maria Carpeaux analysis also focused on Angústia, “Visão de Graciliano Ramos” (1942); the interpretation of Lucia Helena Carvalho, A ponta do novelo: an interpretation of Angústia of Graciliano Ramos (1983) and also the interpretations of graciliana Romanesque made by Alfredo Bosi, João Luiz Lafetá, “O mundo à revelia” (1978), by Luiz Costa Lima, “A reificação de Paulo Honório” (1969), among other writings.