Camargo, Katia Aily Franco deSilva, Edson Moisés de Araújo2023-10-252023-10-252023-07-21SILVA, Edson Moisés de Araújo. Literatura, memória e violência: das crônicas aos romances Pilatos e Quase Memória, de Carlos Heitor Cony. 2023. 155 f. Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Katia Aily Franco de Camargo. Tese (doutorado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/55104This thesis focuses on the analysis of the novels Pilatos (1974) and Quase Memória (1995) by Brazilian writer Carlos Heitor Cony. We highlight the hypothesis that memory and violence can be constituent categories of a literary image concerning acts of repression, social interaction, and the reconstruction of the past. Specifically, we aim to analyze the discursive formatting in the construction of memory about social life, considering the exposure of scenes of violence present in the narratives. To do so, we adopt as theoretical guidance an understanding of literary discourse filled with social materiality (ADORNO, 2003; BAKHTIN, 2017; AUERBACH, 1987; CANDIDO, 2000; EAGLETON, 2011), and we also consider Cony's work as literature that presents politically engaged discursive markers in the face of social representations in the analyzed novels (BENOÎT, 2002; DALCASTAGNÈ, 1996). Regarding memory, our aim is to identify and analyze the elements that emerge in the narratives to outline a social image of social life, drawing from Halbwachs (2006), Bergson (1999), and Pollak (2006), while also considering the marks and discourses of violence as mechanisms of domination (BOURDIEU, 1989; HAN, 2017). Therefore, this thesis allows for an understanding of Cony's work and, specifically, the materiality of novels that address, with their particularities, a problematic and conflict-ridden social environment where the characters are confronted with challenging eventsAcesso AbertoLiteratura engajadaCarlos Heitor ConyMemóriaViolênciaImagem socialRomanceEengaged literatureViolenceSocial imagedoctoralThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES