The carnivalization in The Day of the Flies: novel of bad habits
Carnavalization; Bakhtin; "The Day of the Flies".
The writer Nei Leandro de Castro, in his first novel The Day of the Flies: a Novel of Bad Habits, originally released in 1983 and reissued in 2008, takes on the responsibility of telling, through the vein of humor, the history of foundation of the Potiguar nation. The author brings India Hosanna and the hunter Cançado to open this story through a regional narrative, skewed by dialogues with other texts. Once this corpus was selected, we sought to verify the presence of elements of the carnival worldview, with a view to the transitivity and plurality of discourses that skewed the whole course of the novel. Methodologically, this work is characterized by a qualitative-interpretative nature and is based on the concept of carnivalization of BAKHTIN (1981; 2010a; 2008; 2010b). The results of the analysis point to a communication with socially circulating discourses such as the religious sphere, tradition and popular culture, as well as the dethronement of canonical discourse through dialogue with José de Alencar's work Iracema (2013).