A produção do paradoxo entre homem e real: ressentimento e rebeldia em Feliz Ano Novo

Abstract

This present dissertation had intended, in the first moment, to discuss the marking lines of the knowledges with which literature dialogues constantly, specially with philosophy. In the attempt of making visible the permeability of these knowledges, confronting borders and breaking the epistemological limits, we have analysed the book of short-histories Feliz Ano Novo, of Rubem Fonseca, from the central idea that the relation established between man and reality, relation presents in the characters of the mentioned short-histories, seems as an oblique production of paradox that cross the book, that is, as an overrate either of rational or sensitive, and never the tension between them basic characteristic of Rubem Fonseca s work. This apparent lack of logic the absurd oblique way how the world seems to men and narrative characters, is based on a tense relation established by them with the realization of reality, since life starts to mean anxiety, despair, pain and insatisfaction, because it does not assure happiness, tranquillity and utility, guiding principles of life for resented men. The following activity, origined from such resentment and from an existence considered meaningless, is the nihilistic action, analysed from the considerations of Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus, which necessarily reacts to life and men, and purposes to claim the welfare and the promised estability, to relieve the pain that consumes this man, or still, undo the past, based on a self-made right of acquiring once more a first condition, natural, of constant joy and success