Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LAERTE LIRA DA SILVA

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STUDENT : LAERTE LIRA DA SILVA
DATE: 13/02/2025
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

THE CHRONOTOPE OF THE BANQUET IN SADE: THE REBIRTH OF THE GROTESQUE

KEY WORDS:

banquet; carnavalization; chronotope; grotesque; novel.

PAGES: 206
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade, lived in France between the 18th and 19th centuries. Despite his titles, he became famous for his radical libertine sexuality practiced and exponentially represented in his works, which include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues. and political treatises. This occurred despite the rejection and prohibitions that his publications historically suffered until very recent times. In fact, his literary images were confused with his own reality, in addition to being pointed out as encouraging perversion, which, for many experts, mistakenly associated his name with a psychiatric typification, resulting in names such as sadist and sadism. With the openness and deeper understanding of his work, we began to investigate his courageous attitude in unveiling the abysmal human spirit in an era when it was exalted. The impact of his work has received great cinematic adaptations, although not as widespread, but masterfully crafted, such as, for example, by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), an Italian poet and filmmaker, himself characterized as a versatile and controversial figure. And it is with these qualifications that both François Rabelais, a Renaissance author of the sixteenth century, and Sade categorically reject the dictates of an official culture, not out of pure rebellion, but through a creative subversion that dethrones the outdated as it is no longer capable of generating or driving the new, or even life itself. In this dialogue established over a period of almost three centuries, the fundamental theoretical studies of Bakhtin (1989; 1998a; 2010a; 2010b; 2018a; 2018b; 2022) and Voloshinov (2018; 2019), with the support of works by one of the greatest experts on Sade, namely, Moraes (2006; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2021), were crucial in establishing a dialogue between Sade’s text (1785), namely, Les 120 journées de Sodome ou L’École du Libertinage, and that of Rabelais (1861), namely, Ouvres de F. Rabelais, the latter two being the works that make up our corpus. Bakhtinian theoretical-literary studies substantiated the understanding of the composition of the artistic object in order to raise the importance of the concept of chronotope in the process and completion of artistic-literary expressions, aiming to guide our analytical activity with the perception of a common and creative element in the works of the corpus, namely, the chronotope of the banquet. Thus, we analyzed the aforementioned category from different perspectives in order to, in our investigation, perceive the compositional contiguities between the aforementioned texts under the aspect of transformations, maintenance and/or absence of elements of this same chronotope, guided by a dialogue under a carnivalesque and grotesque axiology such as, for example, the factors of hyperbolization and hybridization in the composition in line with this specific axiology. In this process, passages were selected that reinforced the hypothesis of compositional contiguity between the works of the corpus, some of which are sometimes long, but necessary, given the volume of the works. Therefore, the Rabelaisian chronotope was the most specialized analytical category for achieving our objectives. Our academic elaboration made us not only understand the construction of the concept, but also perceive the productive and creative possibilities of carnivalization both as a process and as a result, in a dialogue established with any chronotopy and, thus, be able to respond to the question of whether it is possible to establish an evident compositional dialogue between Sade and Rabelais.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1000286 - ORISON MARDEN BANDEIRA DE MELO JUNIOR
Interna - 1543253 - KATIA AILY FRANCO DE CAMARGO
Externo à Instituição - NEWTON DE CASTRO PONTES - URCA
Externa à Instituição - SANDRA MARA MORAES LIMA - UNIFESP