A identidade (con)fundida: relação entre sujeito e sociedade no romance Lorde, de João Gilberto Noll

Abstract

The work of João Gilberto Noll is characterized by recurrent strokes quite unique. On the one hand, the breaks with rhetorical-discursive formulations certain usual standards (person, gender, number, time, manner, degree etc., besides the peculiarity of plots); on the other hand, the fact of his characters-players do not have attachment points or minimally accurate reference (name, occupation, physical description, family and emotional ties, place of residence etc.). Together, these factors create enormous ambiguity as to, often, a character not only be confused with another, but literally merge with the other. Given these characteristics, this research is presented as a study of the procedures by which this identity confusion is established and spreads in the novel Lorde (2004), by João Gilberto Noll, analyzing their effects on the articulation of his character-player. Along with this analysis, the results are discussed in light of its possible social motivation, conceiving it as an immanent process of the text composition. Therefore, the discussion will be fostered theoretically based on concepts coming from what would be named here as the philosophy of non-identity - as postulated by Theodor Adorno (1982); (1985); (2008); (2009) and developed by his contemporaries interlocutors. The works of Antonio Candido (1980) and Theodor Adorno (2003) are considered to assist in understanding of the relationship between literary work and society. In addition, to better understand the sexual repressive processes suffered by the character of the novel analyzed, concepts from the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud (2010a); (2010b); (2010c) are also used. Therefore, the choice of Lorde as object of analysis in this work is justified because the typical traits of Noll’s writing, who slip on invariable and inevitable identity confusion, are radicalized in that novel.