O habitus bíblico na construção romanesca de Graciliano Ramos: uma análise de caetés e vidas secas, em diálogo com o Eclesiastes e o corpus iohanneum

Abstract

The object of this work is the dialogical relations between gracilianic texts and biblical texts, investigating how the study of the sacred book of Christianity influenced the formation of an unbelieving intellectual, considered one of the most important Brazilian writers. Despite declaring himself an atheist since his youth, Graciliano Ramos' ironic predilection for reading the Bible is well known, as well as the references to biblical passages in his work. Through an analysis that combines different theoretical-methodological propositions, such as those of Bourdieu (1996; 2003) and Bakhtin (2015; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019), we use the operational concept of biblical habitus to refer to conscious dispositions or unconsciously incorporated by the author in the construction process of his literary monument, and the concept of dialogism, to comparatively analyze the novels Caetés and Vidas secas in relation, respectively, to Ecclesiastes and Corpus Iohanneum.