A morte que não cessa: as perdas, os lutos e os traumas em Caio Fernando Abreu

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Massotti, João Paulo
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Brasil; Letras; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; Centro de Artes e Letras
• Palavras-chave em Português: Morte; Perda; Luto; Trauma; Caio Fernando Abreu; Death; Loss; Mourning; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/30490

This research seeks to reflect on death, loss, mourning, and trauma in the fictional and epistolary writing of Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996). The short stories and the chronicles, published between 1970 and 1996, will share place with collections of letters put together by professor Italo Moriconi and by Caio's personal friend, Paula Dip. Death is the common thread in Caio's narratives, therefore, the work aims to analyze the author’s relation whit processes of the mourning, resulting from the losses caused by subjective death and real-death, the body and finitude, and how these facts result in the traumas that appear not only in the narratives, but in the epistolary exchange. In addition, the aim is to understand how the real death, in other words, "death-of-self" and the awareness of its own finitude rescue in the author the desire for his own existence. In this sense, one of the aspects of the study to be considered is the emphasis on anthropological and psychoanalytical theories that that are able to understand the relation between man and his own finitude. Thus, the chapters deal with issues related to (1) loss, changes in life, lost loves, places left behind; (2) death itself - the body of the other and finitute - and mourning; (3) trauma resulting from the loss-death-mourning relations, and (4) finitude itself, which awakens a feeling of deep desire for life. The analysis in question is important because it brings literary studies closer to studies focused on human behavior, psychology and historical and sociological studies on death, making it possible to intersect with other areas, increasing interest in the subject in literature studies. To deal with the mentioned subjects, theories that deal with the issue of death and human finitude are used, taking into account important authors in the field such as Ernest Becker, Edgar Morin, Jean-Claude Méatraux and Sigmund Freud, taking into account the interdisciplinary perspective with literature.