O movimento cíclico e inquietante da escrita de Herta Müller

Abstract

Herta Müller “concentrics’s” writing brings to the literary scene the presence of a differentiated movement, regarding to the context of contemporary fictional productions. Her productions, based on linguistic and aesthetic resources, designed from a mobile structure, above all, related to the possibilities of meaning, bring them to the center of thematic of universal nature narratives due to its intrinsic relationship with the human being. So, the literary works O compromisso (2009), Fera d'alma (2013a), A raposa já era o caçador (2014) and O homem é grande faisão no mundo (2013c), peering into the memories of the dictatorial regime, led by Nicolae Ceausescu (1965-1989), from Romania, incorporates to the narrative emergency themes into the contemporary scenario, among them, violence. Although differentiated, they report, each on its own way, intolerance of a technically organized regime to overwhelm, manipulate, torture and, in many cases, murder individuals who did not share the same ideology as the State. From this perspective, the violence phenomenon has been finding echo and provided and even more in-depth thinking, above all, about its effects. This way, surrounded by fragmented and non-subjective characters, as a result of the repressive regime, the narrative brings to light characters’ figure displaced and detached from their origins. Then, surrounded by these experiences of displacement, generated by violence, the research objectives to problematize questions related to the processes of deterritorialization, memory and identity. Thereby, our aim is to demonstrate, through the cycle of narratives that build the corpus, how these subjects are brought to literary reality and incorporated to its characters. On this aspect, make evident the presence of mobile structure that is inscribed under the basis of a constant back and forth of words and moments that permeate the narratives. This finding, evidenced due to a cyclical stylistic resource, from the recurrent use of themes such as: exile, displacements, uprooting, identity, memory and violence, which runs through all the narratives that build the corpus, is not built on purpose, it is part of an unconscious movement, triggered by constant displacements that naturally generate a movement proposal. Thus, although guided by the intransigence of authoritarianism, Müller's literature brings one of its memorable characteristics: the way in which it intertwines its experiences and those of the other, even taken by the traumas left by repression. It is, therefore, merging fiction and reality that Müllerian’s writing, produced under the effects of human terror and cruelty, finds on literature the strength to try to deal with horrors from that period, avoiding thus the recurrence.