This thesis aims to point out the social and psychological constructions of Antonio Carlos Viana‘s characters in Cine Privê collection of short stories (2009), based on the madness and eroticism. Connected to this issue, we are concerned to investigate how the grotesque body is described by the narrator‘s ironic memory, which builds silent characters set in situations of social exclusion, contextualized in decaying spaces. As theoretical and methodological elements, we start from reflections that endorse the relations of power, madness, the grotesque, eroticism and sexuality according to the perspective of Michel Foucault, Gaston Bachelard, Wolfgang Kayser and George Bataille. This research is divided in three chapters: the first one is about the theoretical part which addresses the issues of authorship, discourse and power; the second chapter, talks about the perspective from a narrator-child, presents the analysis of selected short stories through the view of madness and of the grotesque such as: "Santana Quemo-Quemo", "Quando meu pai voltou", "Minha avó Inocência" and "Nós, a maré e o morto ". Finally, the third one discusses in detail the issue of grotesque, sexuality and eroticism in the following short stories: "Cine Privê, "Angeline", "Esperanza", "Dia de parir cabrito", "Eliazar Eliazar" and "Moonlight Serenade". Thus, we intend to discuss in what ways the sexual saturation of Antonio Carlos Viana‘s characters occurs facing a disciplinative and excluding social context, as discourse is via of exclusion, as body and space are taken by repulsive aspects. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo abordar as construções sociais e psicológicas dos personagens de Antônio Carlos Viana, na coletânea de contos Cine Privê (2009), tomando como base a problemática da loucura e do erotismo. Aliada a essas temáticas, temos a preocupação de investigar a forma como o corpo grotesco é descrito pela memória irônica do narrador, que constrói personagens silenciosos ambientados em situações de exclusão social, contextualizadas em espaços decadentes. Como subsídios teórico-metodológicos, partimos de reflexões que referendam as relações de poder, da loucura, do grotesco, do erotismo, e da sexualidade, conforme as perspectivas de Michel Foucault, Gaston Bachelard, Wolfgang Kayser e George Bataille. Didaticamente, dividimos esta pesquisa em três capítulos: o primeiro constitui-se na parte teórica que aborda as questões sobre autoria, discurso e poder; o segundo capítulo, sob a ótica do narrador-menino, apresenta as análises dos contos selecionados pelo prisma da loucura e do grotesco: "Santana Quemo-Quemo", "Quando meu pai voltou", "Minha avó Inocência" e "Nós, a maré e o morto"; o terceiro aborda, de forma detalhada, a questão do grotesco, da sexualidade e erotismo nos contos "Cine Privê", "Angeline", "Esperanza", "Dia de parir cabrito", "Eliazar Eliazar" e "Moonlight Serenade". Com isso, pretendemos problematizar de que maneira ocorre a saturação sexual dos personagens de Antônio Carlos Viana diante de um contexto social disciplinador e excludente, quando o discurso é via de exclusão e o corpo, e espaço, são tomados por aspectos repulsivos.

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La tragédie du personnage féminin dans certains écrits de Tahar Ben Jelloun, au regard de la réalité, sociale, religieuse, culturelle, économique et politique impose une analyse herméneutique des contours de la situation authentique de la femme marocaine, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Cette démarche tentera, dans un premier temps, de mettre en lumière, l'imaginaire littéraire qui met le thème du fantasme de la décadence, de l'érotisme exacerbé et de la volupté débridée au cœur du dispositif narratif chez l'auteur marocain. L'ébauche analytique,des figures féminines dans les romans choisis dans cette étude, cheminera vers l'exposition d'un modèle féminin stéréotypé qui met en exergue la relation conflictuelle de Tahar Ben Jelloun, auteur francophone et francophile par excellence, avec certaines formes de la culture marocaine. Cet apport permettra en fin la mise en évidence d'une forme de nomadisme linguistique mêlant exotisation, oralité et langue française dans un processus de recyclage et de renouvellent thématique constant et permanent. / The tragedy of the feminine character in some of Tahar Ben Jelloun's writings, in view of the social, religious, economical and political reality, imposes a hermeneutic analysis of the contours of the authentic situation of the Moroccan woman in the past and in the present. This approach will try, at first, to bring to light, the literary imagination which employs the theme of the fantasy of declination, the exasperated eroticism and the sensual delectation that is unbridled in the core of the narrative structure of the Moroccan author's oeuvres. The analytical study of the feminine figures as presented in the selected novels of this research, will substantiate an exhibition of a stereotypical feminine model. As a matter of fact, this will highlights the persuasion that Tahar Ben Jelloun, who is considered as a francophone author and francophile par excellence, has got a conflictual relationship with some features of the Moroccan culture. This attempt will reveal, at last, the use of a kind of a linguistic nomadism which combines exoticism, oral character and French language in a recycling process of constant and permanent reproducibility.

Sacha Guitry fit de sa vie le sujet principal de son œuvre brillante mais assez élégiaque et relativement mélancolique où les personnages suicidaires joués par lui sont assez fréquents. Dans son œuvre, l’osmose est quasiment complète entre le théâtre et la vie. Ses épouses actrices furent les premières à souffrir de cette osmose et de cette instrumentalisation de leur personne et elles se lassèrent presque toutes (sauf Marconi) d’être éternellement considérées comme des êtres élégants mais souvent muets, en dépit du train de vie brillant qu’il leur offrit. Il perdit ainsi périodiquement des partenaires de qualité (il ne remplacera jamais la très brillante Yvonne Printemps) car, l’une après l’autre, elles refusèrent de sacrifier leur vie personnelle au profit du programme théâtral et cinématographique d’un seul homme. Nous tenterons de voir pourquoi Guitry eut avec les acteurs-hommes de meilleures relations qu’avec les femmes érotisées comme ses cinq épouses. C’est pourquoi nous analyserons les rapports idylliques qu’il eut avec trois autres actrices (Carton, Pierry et Fusier–Gir) que le temps avait déjà marquées physiquement. Nous tenterons surtout de redonner vie à ses cinq actrices-épouses en tenant compte des études récentes relatives au "gender" au cinéma ainsi que des star-studies, même si aucune d’entre elles n’est vraiment une star. Nous nous efforcerons d’analyser les conséquences de son comportement souvent machiste et narcissique sur la vie et la carrière de ces femmes pendant 50 ans. Nous analyserons enfin ce qu’il leur apporta et ce qu’elles offrirent à son brillant cinéma par leur présence. / Sacha Guitry made his own life the main topic of his apparently cheerful and brilliant plays and films which are often also sometimes elegiac and melancholy. Surprisingly in his works, quite a few characters played by him seem to be fascinated by suicide. There is no real boundary in his works between life and theatre and the actresses who were also his wives suffered from this absence of a frontier-line between those two worlds. They also disliked the way he took unfair advantage of their personality in his plays and almost all of them (except Marconi) eventually got tired of being considered as very smart but speechless creatures, although he offered them a very luxurious way of life. He thus lost quite a number of excellent partners (actually he could never really replace Yvonne Printemps, the exceptional player and singer) because, one after the other, they refused to sacrifice their personal life for the benefit of someone with exacting prospects concerning the theatre and the cinema. We shall therefore try to understand why Guitry usually kept up a better relationship with men-actors than with actresses with obvious sex appeal, like his five wives. We shall then examine the perfect friendship he formed with three elderly actresses whose growing age was becoming quite noticeable. We shall try to "bring back to life" the real personalities of the five actresses who also became his wives by resorting to the recent discoveries about "gender" and star-studies. We shall also try to analyze the influence of his narcissistic and chauvinistic attitude upon the lives and careers of these actresses. We shall eventually try to find out what he brought them by his presence and what they added by theirs to his brilliant cinema.

Le sommeil profond, distinct du rêve qu’il accompagne, a bien souvent été occulté par ce dernier au sein des études philosophiques et historiques. La présente recherche, consacrée aux figures d’endormis et aux théories du sommeil à la Renaissance, propose de combler en partie cette lacune en partant de l'hypothèse selon laquelle le sommeil profond, bien qu’il échappe à la conscience, n'en demeure pas moins chargé de sens et de valeurs. L’imaginaire bifurque pour créer, en lieu et place d’une absence de connaissance, une source vive de métaphores. Placé au confluent des traditions chrétiennes et païennes, l’art de la Renaissance offre à l’interprétation une multiplicité de figures endormies. Métaphores visuelles, pétries par la littérature de l’époque, nourries de théories qu’elles transforment en retour. À travers elles, dormir constitue bien souvent l’indice du péché, car « l’oisiveté est mère de tous les vices ». Mais, la métaphore change avec la pose du dormeur, son lieu et son environnement également. Selon les œuvres, le sommeil devient l’emblème de l’enfance ou de la vieillesse (premiers et derniers sommeils), une métaphore d’ignorance et d’oubli (sommeil léthéen), la figure du secret et de la foi (repos contemplatif), du désespoir et de la mélancolie (sommeil de tristesse), de l’amour céleste et du ravissement (vacance de l’âme) ou bien du rapt et de la volupté (érotisme léthargique). L’énigme du sommeil donne forme aux questions insolubles qui ne cessent de nous mettre en éveil : images léthargiques de bonheur, d’amour et de mort qui n’en finissent pas de hanter l’imaginaire contemporain, « métaphores absolues » dont l’histoire ne cesse de s’inventer. / Scores of historical and philosophical studies have been devoted to dreams. However, the notion of deep sleep (as opposed to dreams) seems to have been thoroughly neglected. The present study attempts to fill this gap by analyzing representations of sleepers and theories of sleep in the Renaissance. My working hypothesis is that even though deep sleep appears to be located outside of the realm of consciousness, it amounts nonetheless to a heavily determined notion, both semantically and axiologically. Sleep seems to offer a form of imaginative diversion, as the absence of knowledge gives free rein to fanciful metaphors. At the crossroads of Christian and pagan traditions, Renaissance art offers a cornucopia of representations of sleep. They constitute visual metaphors, deeply influenced by the literature and theoretical writings of the period, on which they had in turn a tremendous impact. Thus, sleep is often equated with sin, as « idle hands are the devil's workshop », but its meaning also depends on the sleeper's attitude, location and context. For instance, sleep can be depicted as an emblem of early childhood or old age (first or last sleep), a metaphor for oblivion (Lethean sleep), a figure of ecstasy and faith (contemplative rest), an image of melancholy (sleep of sadness), of spiritual rapture (vacation of the soul) or sensual ravishment (lethargic eroticism). Whichever the case, sleep always remains an enigma, a Protean concept assuming the shape of virtually unanswerable questions : lethargic images of happiness, love and death that are still haunting the contemporary imagination, « absolute metaphors » constantly reinventing themselves and their history.

Ce mémoire a pour but de s’intéresser au traitement du corps dans les créations littéraires et cinématographiques de Nelly Kaplan, à la manière dont il est perçu et aux normes (sociales, historiques, politiques) qui le façonnent. À travers l’analyse de trois œuvres significatives de Kaplan, soit le recueil de nouvelles Le Réservoir des sens, le film culte La Fiancée du pirate ainsi que le récit Un manteau de fou rire, l’étude cherche à faire connaître la démarche de l’auteure-artiste qui met en œuvre des modes de vie où règnent les libertés sexuelle et morale, au grand bonheur des personnages littéraires et cinématographiques. L’auteure-artiste met effectivement à distance certaines idées reçues sur les corps féminin et masculin grâce notamment à des stratégies d’humour et d’ironie, ce qui la conduit à remettre en cause le système traditionnel des identités sexuées et sexuelles, basé sur des binarismes (masculin/féminin ; bien/mal ; intellectuel/sentimental ; clair/obscur ; etc.). Ses créations sont empreintes d’un désir de libération qui se manifeste à travers la révolte (érotique) que portent en eux les personnages et qui les amène à s’émanciper des idéaux petit-bourgeois, dont la morale catholique. Kaplan se livre ainsi à la déconstruction des règles morales et politiques et propose une nouvelle organisation du monde basée sur le respect des pulsions et des désirs individuels. / This master’s thesis concentrates on the human body ; how it is perceived in the context of social, historical and political norms that shape it. The thesis focuses on the approach of Nelly Kaplan who introduces lifestyles where sexual and moral freedom reigns, to the delight of the protagonists featured in her work. This is accomplished through analysis of three significant works by Kaplan : a collection of short stories called Le Réservoir des sens ; the cult-movie La Fiancée du pirate ; and the narrative Un manteau de fou rire. Kaplan attacks preconceived and historical prejudices about the male and female body through humour and irony, which leads to Kaplan questioning an outdated paradigm that is the binarity of sexual identities. Her creations are marked by the desire for liberation, which is expressed through an (erotic) revolt carried out by her characters. This act leads them to emancipate themselves from the petite bourgeoisie catholic ideal. Kaplan thus engages in the deconstruction of moral and political rules and proposes a new organization of the world based on respect for individual impulses and desires.

[pt] Para refletir sobre O erotismo na poesia de Murilo Mendes, flagrante na sua obra Poesia completa e prosa, este trabalho busca a distinção entre sensualidade, erotismo, amor e religiosidade (o sagrado e o profano). Detecta-se, em quaisquer leituras que se relacionem à sua obra, o vínculo entre erotismo, poesia e religiosidade. Destaca nos textos analisados a presença da mulher: as sensuais, as fatais, as misteriosas, as pitorescas, as espiritualizadas, as quais, desencadeando a conduta erótica do eu lírico, constitui-se em elementos que regem a poesia de Murilo. Movido pelo amor, desejo, paixão, sensualidade, religiosidade, solidariedade e senso de justiça, o poeta ramifica o erotismo em seus versos e transita dos prazeres da carne aos prazeres do espírito. A análise desenvolvida mostra que sua poesia é inebriada pelos sonhos, que excitam a energia libidinosa encontrada em seus versos, concretizada por meio de uma linguagem erotizada ou pela exposição de partes sensuais do corpo da mulher, que ganham relevo no olhar subjetivo do poeta. Um olhar que se estende para a contemplação erótica do mundo. Das formas femininas emergem mulheres com características surrealistas: sólidas ou insólidas, visíveis ou invisíveis, as quais entrecruzam seus versos desde a construção de seu primeiro livro, Poemas. Merecem destaque, ainda, os escritos memorialísticos A idade do serrote, essenciais para se compreenderem a formação intelectual do autor e a influência dessa formação em sua arquitetura poética. Ao conciliar elementos opostos Murilo, eclético, se distingue dos demais poetas do Modernismo brasileiro. / [en] The aim of the present work is to reflect upon The eroticism in Murilo Mendes` Poetry in his book Poesia complete e prosa trying to distinguish between sensuousness and eroticism, love and religion, i.e., between sacredness and profanity. In fact, in any reading of his work a link between eroticism, poetry and religion can be detected. In the studied texts the presence of the woman is highlighted: the sensuous, fatal, mysterious, picturesque, the spiritual woman who triggers the erotic feeling of the lyric poet making up the elements of Murilo`s poetry. Driven by love, desire, passion, sensuality, religion, solidarity and the sense of justice, the poet develops eroticism in his poetry and goes from the pleasures of the flesh to the spiritual ones. The study shows that his poetry is embedded in dreams which excite the libidinous energy realized by the erotic language or the exhibition of the sensuous parts of the female body. This leads to an erotic contemplation of the world. Women with surrealistic characteristics either real or unreal, visible or invisible have been present in his poetry since his first book, Poems, Poemas. Also, his memory writings should be considered, The age of the saw , A idade do serrote, which are essencial to understand the author`s academic education as well as the influence of this education upon his poetic construction. Thus, by putting together opposite elements the eclectic writer has been distinguished from the other poets of the Brazilian Modern Movement. / [fr] Pour réfléchir sur l Érotisme dans la poésie de Murilo Mendes, évident dans son oeuvre Poesia Completa e Prosa ce travail cherche à établir une distinction entre la sensualité, l érotisme, l amour et la religiosité (le sacré et le profane). On détecte dans toutes les lectures ayant des rapports avec ses oeuvres, le lien entre l érotisme, la poésie et la religiosité. On remarque dans les textes analysés la présence des femmes: la sensuelle, la meurtrière, la mystérieuse, la pittoresque, la spiritualisée qui, déclenchant le comportement érotique du je lyrique, constituent des éléments qui régissent la poésie de Murilo. Poussé par l amour, le désir, la passion, la sensualité, la religiosité, la solidarité et le sens de la justice, le poète ramifie l’érotisme dans ses vers et transite des plaisirs de la chair aux plaisirs de l esprit. L analyse développée montre que sa poésie est enivrée par des rêves qui excitent l énergie libidineuse trouvée dans ses vers, concretisée par un langage érotisé ou par l exposition de certaines parties sensuelles du corps féminin, qui gagnent en importance dans le regard subjectif du poète. Un regard qui s étend vers la contemplation érotique du monde. Des formes féminines émergent des femmes avec des caractéristiques surréalistes: solides ou insolides, visibles ou invisibles, qui entre-croisent ses vers depuis la construction de son premier livre, Poemas. Il faut remarquer aussi les mémoires A idade do serrote, indispensable pour comprendre la formation intellectuelle de l auteur et l influence de cette formation dans son architecture poétique. En conciliant des éléments opposés Murilo, éclectique, se distingue des autres poetes du modernisme brésilien.

[pt] Este trabalho teve como principal objetivo compreender os discursos veiculados pelo mercado de produtos eróticos na construção de novas convenções morais. O enfoque analítico em seus processos de comercialização foi organizado através de observações exploratórias em duas edições das principais feiras eróticas brasileiras, bem como pela experiência etnográfica em um sex shop localizado no Complexo do Alemão, Zona Norte da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Dentre as reflexões propostas, algumas questões foram levantadas: Como o mercado erótico produz e transforma hierarquias de gênero e sexualidade? De que forma suas verdades são agenciadas nas práticas eróticas contemporâneas? Aliado ao reflexo das recentes mudanças políticas e econômicas observadas na favela em questão, os limites e trânsitos entre norma e transgressão apontaram para narrativas nas quais as classificações do erotismo se estabelecem em constante diálogo com o processo civilizador. / [en] This work intended to understand the speeches of erotic products market in the construction of new moral conventions that circulate in this context. The analytical approach in their marketing processes were organized through exploratory observations in two Brazilian editions of erotic fairs, as well as the ethnographic experience on a sex shop located in Complexo do Alemão, one of the biggest favelas located in North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Among the reflections proposed, some issues were raised: How the erotic market produces and transforms hierarchies of gender and sexuality? How their truths transforms contemporary erotic practices? Associated with the reflection of the recent political and economic changes observed in this especially urban space, limits and movement between norm and transgression points to narratives in which the ratings of eroticism is settled in constant dialogue with the civilizing process.

[pt] Este projeto se propõe a estudar o percurso feito por dois realizadores de cinema – um brasileiro, Carlos Reichenbach, e um argentino, Alberto Fischerman. Ambos partiram dos movimentos da chamada contracultura dos anos 60 e 70 e, poucos anos mais tarde, estiveram envolvidos com produções de pretensões notadamente comerciais e de forte apelo popular. Portanto, o estudo trata dos contextos em que essa produção se realizou e se estende à recepção crítica tida pelos filmes. Ao observar estes filmes e sua crítica, o estudo propõe duas questões. Primeiro: em que medida estes realizadores, mesmo realizando obras inseridas no esquema de produção mercantil da indústria de cinema, trouxeram aos filmes marcas de seu percurso, adicionando doses de transgressão e ironia aos contextos francamente vulgares. Em seguida, analisar como se deu o movimento da crítica diante destas obras apelativas e transgressoras. Para isso, a comparação entre os contextos de dois diferentes países pode enriquecer a análise. / [en] This project analyzes the works of two filmmakers – the Brazilian Carlos Reichenbach, and the Argentinian Alberto Fischerman. Both have made their first films linked to counterculture movements of the 60s and 70s. A few years later, both of them became involved with exploitation productions. This study looks into the historical contexts in which these productions took place. It will also analyze the way both features were received by film critics. By focusing on these two films and the critical film writing they inspired, this study proposes two questions. First: If these directors, even when doing their exploitation works, have embedded in their productions doses of transgression and irony, which turned upside down what was originally an openly vulgar context. We will also look into the way the critics reacted to this subversive exploitation. In order to better grasp this reception by film pundits, a comparison between the two distinct contexts of Brazil and Argentina can enrich the analysis.

Lire une fiction gracquienne s’apparente à l’expérience du ravissement amoureux. Etre lecteur de Gracq, c’est accepter d’être ravi, capturé et enchanté tout à la fois. La dépossession herméneutique à laquelle le texte gracquien nous convie relève de l’expérience érotique. Présent comme thème, mais secondaire, mince, intermittent, l’érotisme semble exister dans le profil perdu du texte. Son cadre posé et aussitôt évidé de sa substance fait disparaître la scène sexuelle sous les yeux du lecteur-voyeur, dont l’attente est déjouée. La fiction organise l’escamotage du sexe, relançant sans cesse le désir à l’échelle du récit et de la lecture. L’imaginaire érotique, stéréotypé et obsessionnel, consacre sa présence-absence à la croisée de trois impossibles : le sexe, la femme, la mort. L’érotisme gracquien est donc bien un vide autour duquel tourne le lecteur et que cerne l’écriture. Aporétique, la voie de l’érotisme ? Ce n’est pas qu’elle ne mène à rien chez Gracq, c’est que le lecteur est invité à progresser dans cette aporie, à y digresser. L’érotisme est toujours déplacé, enfoui dans le palimpseste du paysage. Du dé-cor(ps) au corps à corps avec les mots, c’est l’usage de la langue qui est érotisé chez Gracq : il ne représente pas le sexe ; il le figure dans le texte, jusqu’à la jouissance et sous les yeux du lecteur, cet Autre. Dans l’œuvre de Julien Gracq, l’enjeu libidinal de la littérarité est de taille : l’érotique gracquienne transfigure la chair en chaire : du sexe au texte, l’auteur adopte une posture de séduction ; le texte fait écran entre lui et l’Autre qu’est le lecteur. Le sexe est devenu texte, limen, frontière, entre-deux irréductible, il est devenu l’hymen, espace de touche entre soi et l’autre ; la rencontre, pourtant représentée comme impossible, peut alors s’opérer. / Reading a fiction by Gracq feels similar to lovers’ delight. To become a Gracq reader, you must accept to be delighted, captured and enchanted all at once. The hermeneutic dispossession experienced through Gracq’s fiction is clearly erotic. No matter how secondary, thin and sporadic, the theme of eroticism may be, it seems to be running throughout the lost profile of the text. All set up and cleared of its substance, the sexual scene disappears from the eyes of the reader-voyeur whose expectation is frustrated. Fiction manages to cover up sex by setting desire within the plot and the reading. The presence-absence of erotic fantasy, as stereotyped and obsessive as it may be, is best consecrated at the crossroads of three impossible matters: sex, women and death. Eroticism by Gracq turns out to be a void around which the reader is waltzing and that the writing manages to grasp. Is the path of eroticism aporetic? It is not that this path is a dead end but rather that the reader is invited to advance and digress in this aporia. Eroticism is always moved, buried within the palimpsest of the landscape. With his successive unmoulding and moulding of words, it becomes clear that language is eroticised with Gracq. He doesn’t picture sex, he features it in his text until it pleases him –all this in the other, that is to say the reader’s eyes. In Julien Gracq’s work, the libidinal issue of literarity is at stake: Gracq’s eroticism transfigures flesh into a pulpit. From sex to text, the author takes on a posture of seduction. The text forms a screen between him and the Other, that is to say the reader. Sex has become text, limen, a border, an essential in-between. It has become the hymen, a touching space between one and the other. The meeting, though often portrayed as impossible, can then happen.