Tinha uma grippe no meio da cidade

Saulo de Araújo Lemos

doi:10.5007/1984-784X.2015v15n23p18

There was influenza in the middle of the way

Authors

Saulo de Araújo Lemos Universidade Estadual do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-784X.2015v15n23p18

Abstract

O mez da grippe [The month of the influenza], by the Brazilian writer Valêncio Xavier (1933-2008) is an innovative work which creates a space and a narrative anxiety from images and texts directly extracted from the media of that times, from varied sources and from fictional insertions of text by the author-organizer. The theme that assembles the elements of that collage is the episode of the epidemy of Spanish Flu which undertook the Brazilian city of Curitiba in 1918, the same year of the end of the First World War and the European belle époque. In this paper, it's aimed to discuss how literary form is movable, even seeming to be fixed, and how it produces unusual relations between man and his others (animal, vegetable, virus, himself); thus, one can say that civilization is fed by the barbarity which menaces to destroy it, and that comprehends a kind of music.

Author Biography

Saulo de Araújo Lemos, Universidade Estadual do Ceará

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal do Ceará e professor-assistente da Universidade Estadual do Ceará.

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Published

2015-12-18

Issue

Boletim de Pesquisa NELIC v. 15, n. 23 - O coral, uns invisíveis (2015)

Section

Dossiê

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