A violência no romance O Filho da Mãe, de Bernardo Carvalho

Abstract

The present article turns specifically to the analysis of the violence in its diverse expressions represented in the novel O filho da mãe by Bernardo Carvalho, published in 2009, it does part of a collection Project Amores Expresso from publisher Companhia das Letras. Based on critical studies on contemporary literature of Pellegrini (2008 e 2001); Resende (2008) and Schollhammer (2011) will be taken into account the diversified features of this literary movement in Carvalho's novel. In the work are resumed some historical facts to compose the plot, in which the misery of war and how it affects a nation, especially the links between the various characters, usually the marginalized ones of the conflict is fundamental in the novel. The analysis seeks to show that violence and the marginalization of social minorities are constitutive elements of the represented company and as a consequence it also becomes an element of the creative experiences and symbolic representations of Brazilian culture.