Traição em Nelson Rodrigues: um leitura da tragédia moderna

Abstract

The presented dissertation has as purpose to develop a reading about the modern tragedy inserted in the plays A falecida, Anjo negro e Perdoa-me por me traires, of Nelson Rodrigues, including as analytical category the betrayal, appealing theme in the studied texts, which presence echoes in the reflection dramatic action. This work points as a theoretical discussion, the concept of modern tragedy elaborated by Raymond Williams, who included the social thought of the literary work and its performance as a reflexive instrument and transformer, having in view its permanent correlation with the history and the culture. In that sense, the tragedy expresses a critical-reflexive approach, for presenting the tension between the traditional and the individual human experience, and the betrayal, as immanent resource in the composition tragic of Nelson Rodrigues, comes to represent the lonely human fight as expression of the Brazilian modern dramatic art.