O militante como personagem protagonista: o tempo e o esgotamento do discurso dissidente em O amor de Pedro por João, de Tabajara Ruas, e Habitante irreal, de Paulo Scott

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the protagonist characters of the narratives Nowhere People (2011), by Paulo Scott, and O amor de Pedro Por João (1981), by Tabajara Ruas, in view of their characterizations as political activists, to understand how this social actor is represented by contemporary literature in a historical period when the dissident discourse and the horizon for the transformation of society have become meaningless. For that, these characters are analyzed in conjunction with the temporal structure of the narrative in the search for a global understanding of the text. This allows us to have more subsidies about these characters and establish a firm comparison between the works in the knowledge of the compositional procedures responsible for the experience of time, both at the diegetic level and in the time composed by the ordering of events. We use the contribution of Gerard Genette (1995) to describe and standardize the nomenclatures of these temporal phenomena in the literature. Likewise, we use the contributions of the philosopher Paulo Arantes (2014) to describe the historical processes responsible for the crumbling of the experience of the time of transformation and the establishment of the present time, defined by the author as the New Time of the World. The analysis supported by these varied contents allows us to conclude that a justified interpretation in these assumptions helps in a specific understanding of these narratives, especially in O amor de Pedro de João, a novel in which the problem of militancy involves all the characters and most of the actions, although it finds a greater limit in Nowhere People, a plot full of twists and turns that is directed towards a context of private relations that cannot be characterized from this interpretive position.