Do herói sem nenhum caráter ao herói mau caráter: uma leitura de Mário de Andrade e de Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

This research establishes a dialogue between Macunaíma from Mário de Andrade and Nau Catrineta, O outro and O cobrador from Rubem Fonseca. Its goal is to study the violence shown in these books. It will be used Analytical Psychology concepts, investigations made by the psychologist and anthropologist Robert Gambini and by the literary critic Tzvetan Todorov. We intend to demonstrate that the violence which characterizes Rubem Fonseca’s work is present in Macunaíma too, and that this violence is not only a Modernity and Post Modernity characteristic, but it is present in Brazilian society from the beginning to nowadays.