Arte e fome: uma leitura a partir do conto "Olhar" de Rubem Fonseca

Abstract

Rubem Fonseca had his first publication in the 1960’s, however, his literature gained greater prominence from the 1970’s. In his writings some categories are recurrent like the city, the violence, the sexuality, the solitude, the body. The present research shows that the author develops two tendencies in his work in respect to his stories. Thus, the narratives referring to the mid 1970’s presents distinct points to those that the author will develop in the mid 90’s. The tales Intestino grosso (1973) and especially the short story Olhar (1992) make up the main literary corpus of this research, due to their narrators being understood as the author’s alter ego, pointing out their perceptions about art, specifically literature, society, human relations in our modernity. After a brief passage through the historical moments of each period here treated, a tale of the author was analyzed. Thus, the "Olhar" tale was chosen to illustrate the period of 1990 and the "Relato de ocorrência" tale to illustrate the period of 1970.