O trágico em Lúcio Cardoso: um estudo de A luz no subsolo e Crônica da casa assassinada

Abstract

This study investigates the presence of tragic aesthetics in Lúcio Cardoso literature. The systematic observation of the dark narrative spaces constructed by the author for the development of the plot of his literary productions gave rise to the following hypothesis: the atmospheres of uneasiness, mystery and fear, intensified to the controversial characters have elements of the tragic as an aesthetic category capable of representing the essence of the human condition: existential duality. Based on this perspective, we tried to, at first, the genesis of the tragic concept from the classic tragedy, in order to understand the circumstances that favored the emergence of the genre, and followed by identification of the contexts that enabled the multiplicity of conceptions of tragic in modernity. The description of the tragic elements in Lucio Cardoso's work was then given, with special attention to the recurrence in which antagonistic passions shape the actions and character of the Cardosian characters in the novels A luz no subsolo (1936) e Crônica da casa assassinada (1959).