Name: DANIELLE FARDIN FERNANDES
Publication date: 17/04/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Advisor |
Summary: Alphonsus de Guimaraens published the book Mendigos in 1920, shortly before his death (in
1921). In the book, there are 44 chronicles and a poem. These are narratives that address
multiple subjects, but have a very frequent resource, which is humor, in the broadest sense.
This is because the humor he creates does not provoke easy laughter, but requires reflection
and deciphering elements not always visible to the reader, especially the contemporary
reader. The thesis proposes to examine a large part of these chronicles, analyzing them in the
light of humor. Before, however, we make considerations about Symbolism (Brazilian and
European) and the concept of humor, using in particular texts by Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, Vladimir Propp and Elias Thomé Saliba. The analysis of the chronicles brought to light
the existential, philosophical and even epistemological conflict of the writer who, living in a
hegemonically religious world, even more residing in the baroque environment of Minas
Gerais, does not fail to criticize Christian values and characters, without, however, disconnect
everything from the metaphysical imagination. The thesis seeks, then, to point out the emergence of humor precisely in this in-between place where the fissure of faith allows humor to
break out, in the form of laughter, irony, wits, mockery and even jokes.
