De acontecimento literário a produto de exportação: uma leitura comparativa entre as duas edições de Cidade de Deus

Abstract

This paper aims at comparing the two editions of City of God, novel written by Paulo Lins, published respectively in 1997 and 2002. This comparison is justified by the significant cuts in the second version. We try to discuss how these cuts influenced the aesthetic and ideological perception of this version. For this purpose, we use a sociological approach, based on the considerations of Pierre Bourdieu and Jesse de Souza, authors who reflected on the strategies of symbolic domination in the context of modern capitalist societies. The thinking of these authors has allowed us to not only discuss different shades of meaning in the formation of slums in Brazil, which can be noticed in the two editions of City of God, but also reflect on the relationship between market and literature.