Escrita-desejo em Acenos e afagos, de João Gilberto Noll

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Aline Costa dos
• Orientador(a): Barberena, Ricardo Araújo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea; João Gilberto Noll; Erotismo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Contemporary Brazilian Literature; João Gilberto Noll; Eroticism
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/9351

This thesis approaches the eroticism in Acenos e afagos (2008) by João Gilberto Noll. In this novel, eroticism reflects the depths of the narrator’s soul, a man in the constant search for fulfilment and to merge with another. João Imaculdo, the narrator/character, is a wanderer with neither direction nor perspective in life. However, he feels the need of finding himself, and in order to do so he leaves his life within conventional molds behind so he can taste the anguish of pleasure and lust in the name of his teenage love. In this sense, to search for an unrealistic completeness is the driving force of this man, unhappy with his deceitful life. João is not sure about his own steps, as past, present and future are all tangled in his mixed-up thoughts. The constant search for pleasure is built in the great time and space that is the narrator’s imagination, instigated by his sex drive, which will eventually lead to his gender reassignment. The novel presents not only sex scenes between the characters, but also imagery that attest the author’s use of the language as a means of persuasion through which the narrator longs to fulfil his desire, with the imagination and frenzy which allow him to merge with another in moments of pleasure, reaching the ultimate meaning of eroticism. Considering that, this thesis aims to answer the following question: How is “desire-writing” manifested in João Gilberto Noll’s novel Acenos e afagos? This thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter presents a study on eroticism theory starting from Bataille (2017), Caillois (1988), and Paz (1994). Inspired by Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, the second chapter presents a survey of key expressions used in Noll’s works, aiming to investigate how they contribute to “desire-writing” in the specific work analysed. At last, the third chapter, based on the aforementioned theoretical studies, presents an analysis on Acenos e afagos, with the intent of identifying “desire-writing” in this novel.