As casas de vidro em nós: panóptico e contranarrativa nas obras de Ievguêny Zamiátin, Ivan Ângelo e Rubem Fonseca

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Lira, Thaíse Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Letras; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Gêneros literários - Análise comparada; Distopia; Panóptico; Contranarrativa; Tradição e modernidade; Intertextualidade; Literary genres - Comparative analysis; Dystopia; Panopticon; Counter-narrative; Tradition and modernity; Intertextuality; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29819

The Brazilian dystopian narratives released in the 20th and 21st centuries have resonances of the Russian dystopia We (2017 [1924]), by Ievguêni Zamyátin, and a closer look at these productions is necessary, in structural and thematic aspects. Among the many common features in dystopian works, while this thesis analyzes the dystopian characteristics in the text, it emphasizes two main points: first, the idea of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon (2019) represented in the instruments of control, oppression and repression of the population in dystopias and what are the implications of this excessive surveillance; second, Raffaella Baccolini's (1995) concept of counter-narrative in the stories analyzed in this final work. The main book analyzed in this thesis is We (2017 [1924]), a dystopian novel written in the early 1920s, but released only in 1924, in New York City (USA) and in English, because USSR censorship prohibited the publication of works like that in the country. The Russian narrative is told in the form of diary entries, in which the engineer and mathematician D-503, a proud member of the One State (new system of world government), discusses his new world, the society which, for the “numbers” (or unifs) is the most perfect in history, and also about the opposing elements that try to rise up against the Well-Doer, the head of the nation. We (2017 [1924]) influenced important dystopian narratives, such as Brave New World (2014 [1932]), by Huxley, and 1984 (2009 [1949]), by Orwell, among others. Zamyatin's reverberation in Brazilian dystopian works is perceptible in the analysis, like the aspects which are compared: the use of brute force to repress riots; spatial and social changes; the centralization of power; advanced technologies, the lack of social harmony and the strong presence of the glass, in all its symbology. The thesis, whose research was bibliographical, qualitative and explanatory, begins by presenting the review of criticism of the authors mentioned in the study, on literary and comparative studies, such as Nitrini (2001), Eagleton (2003), Samuel (2007), Castello (2012), Carvalhal (2006). Next, it discusses the theoretical perspectives of narrative, according to Todorov (2013), Genette (2015; 2017), Reuter (2004); and it also debates the counter-narrative as a discourse of resistance, according to Baccolini (1995). Subsequently, this final work addresses panopticism, according to Bentham (2019), in which case the studies of Foucault (2014) are also essential. Further on, the thesis presents the book We (2017 [1924]), by Zamiátin, in its dystopian aspects, and, in order to perform this, the theoretical precepts of Booker (1994), Baccolini (1995), Claeys (2010), Vieira (2010) and Moylan (2016) are fundamental. Finally, this work presents the analysis of Zamiátin's work compared to the study of the short stories "O quarto selo (fragmento)" (1987 [1969]), by Rubem Fonseca, and "A casa de Vidro" (1979), by Ivan Ângelo, seeking to establish similarities and distinctions between the narratives of the corpus, according to studies by Carvalhal (1986) on comparative literature. This final work seeks to encourage comparative studies between Brazilian and Russian dystopias, due to the relevance and originality of Zamyatin's work and to the remarkable influence of the Russian writer on literature.