Entre excrementos e secreções: o texto de Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

This work consists in an analysis of three stories of the book Secreções, Excreções e Desatinos, written by Rubem Fonseca (2001). It aims to get in the narrative of the stories analyzing what is revolting and grotesque in the relationship between man and some body element in the stories of Rubem Fonseca (2001). First of all, we intent to observe the nature of the excrement while a text that connect the high to the low of the body in the short story “Copromancia” and provoke the apparent sensation of sublimity according to the considerations of Edmund Burke (1993). The next step is to reflect about dispense the images who refer to the history of art and literature as well as about the sensation of movement that pass by the profanation of the images in the short story “O Corcunda e a Vênus de Botticelli”, observing the discussions of Deleuze (2000) and Agamben (2007). This work ends with the analysis of the short story “Vida”, aiming at the conception of relegation to the lower stratum of the body developed by Mikhail Bakhtin (1987) and to the relationships between the three stories analyzed here.