Angústia e Memória: a crise existencial do ser em Luís da Silva na obra Angústia de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

This work aims to analyze aspects of the existential crisis of the fragmented character Luís da Silva from the work Angústia, in order to relate his anguish and memories with his decadent view of the world. In this sense, it is considered opportune to highlight that Luís da Silva's construction process was based on the models required of 20th century man, however, he is an individual considered emblematic for facing his existential anguish within himself and with the world. Therefore, Angústia (1936), by Graciliano Ramos, promotes dialogue in a believable way to the monologue of the decadent (anti) hero. Furthermore, the character appears fragmented to the detriment of the aspects focused on anguish and memories that are brought to the surface in his monologue. To this end, the choice of theme is justified by the reading done and because it is a novel with a more focused look at the identities of (post)modern man in a conflicting situation. Consequently, the theoretical postulates of Bauman (2004; 2011) are presented for discussion; Berman (1986); Halbwachs (1990); Freud (2014); Hall (2006); Kierkegaard (2017); Lacan (2005); Pollak (1992); Sartre (2007) bringing considerations before the moment of analysis. Furthermore, the second moment features various discussions about modernist aesthetics, the author's trajectory and fortune followed by criticism as it is above all a presentation for analysis. In this way, the moment determined the reading and re-reading of the novel Angústia, revisiting Ramos (2023); Bosi (2015); Candido (2006); Velloso (2010); Moisés (2019). Consequently, the analysis is divided into three chapters, in which theoretical concepts are developed, starting with discourses about the author, the work and criticism, reflected in the anlysis of fragments of Angústia, relating them to aspects of anguish and memory of the fragmented and decadent character