Representações da violência no Ensaio sobre a cegueira, de José Saramago

Abstract

This work is a study about the representations of violence in the novel Blindness, published in 1995. For this purpose, José Saramago's trajectory is presented, as the writer's experiences unfold in the themes of his works and in his writing style. The definitions and typologies of violence are analyzed based on the theories of Hannah Arendt (1985), Maria Cecília Minayo (2006) and François Dubet (2006), in order to understand how their concepts are present in José Saramago's fiction. It is evidenced, with theoretical support from Bourdieu (2002), Minayo (2007), Sousa (2017) and Foucault (2018), violence against the female gender and institutional violence, used by those who had control over the social space where the blind were. The aim of this dissertation is to collaborate with studies about violence in the literary sphere, which allows us to discuss, dialogically, about socio-cultural problems.