Da imagem das mãos ao corpo sem órgãos: um olhar sobre a personagem Paulo Honório do romance S. Bernardo, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

The corpus for this thesis was the second novel by Graciliano Ramos, S. Bernardo. Published in 1934, the narrative is made up of accounts by the character-writer Paulo Honório, the focus of this study. The objective was to point out how the character becomes a body free from interpretation and judgment though molded by body organizing modes of life, i.e., a body without organs – unblocked by dominating hierarchical organizations; transcendences organized to draw useful labour from individuals. In short, a new body that results from a world of pure difference in Deleuze&Guattari‘s terms. In this perspective, the critical analysis focused on the relationship between Paulo Honório and the other characters – especially with Madalena, his wife – and also between him and literary art. Inthe light of the theoretical frameworks by Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuzeand Felix Guattari, among others, including critics of Graciliano Ramos, the organized body of the protagonist – marked by the sociopolitical economic context – was analyzed in view of the unveiling oddity of this body – starting with hands – that is remade into a new body, powerful to affect and be affected – without organs – transgressor of modes of life, denouncer of models, standards and norms ingrained in an organic organization of bodies.