Transgressão e descoberta em Orgia, os diários de Tulio Carella

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the book Orgia, written by Italo Tulio Carella, Argentine intellectual, writer and theater teacher, is invited by Hermilo Borba Filho to teach at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Recife, currently the Federal University of Pernambuco, in order to oxygenate the newly created theater course, at early 1960s. At the same time that the city was teeming intellectually and culturally, it breathed a certain moral and political closure, which meant that Tulio Carella was mistaken for a Cuban arms dealer for the Ligas Camponesas, being arrested and tortured by the Brazilian Army. In his apartment in the center of the city of Recife, the army discovers notes that are his diaries, in which he mainly reported meetings with men. Invited to leave the University and deported informally to Argentina after his arrest, he launched Orgia, Diário Primeiro, in 1968, a hard period of the Brazilian military dictatorship and also one of the periods of the Argentine military dictatorship. This research tries to follow these paths, raising a discourse of the work as memorialistic and / or fictional, apprehending the concepts of archives and memory in literature, concepts that guided me in the labyrinths of public archives in order to observe how the transgression was it establishes, structures itself and how it is important in the construction of the narrative and in the erasure of Orgia as a homoerotic literary work, understanding that the microcosm of the city center, providing numerous encounters with the men who inhabited it, notably blacks, revealed in that flâneur in Recife a new facet of their sexuality. And also show how I see this writing, called memorialistic, from the historiographic findings of the author's passage through the city and in post 1968, corresponding to the period of his ostracism as an author, which made me think that taking on the work as a diary is intimate relationship with his erasure also as a writer, and that this transgression was the political path chosen by him, always trying to understand how the concepts of time, archive, memory and transgression mobilize these assumptions.