2023-01-302023-01-302017-06CAMARGO, Flávio Pereira. O desejo homoerótico no conto "Obs-ceno", de Antônio de Pádua. Fólio: revista de Letras, Vitória da Conquista, v. 9, n. 1, p. 51-62, jan./jun. 2017. DOI: 10.22481/folio.v9i1.3244. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/folio/article/view/3244. Acesso em: 17 jan. 2023.e- 2176-4182http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/21811This paper aims to analyze the tale “Obs-ceno”, by Antonio de Pádua, included in the book Abjetos: desejos, published in 2010, from a perspective between literature and homoeroticism, based on the theoretical discussions of Eribon Didier's studies (2008), Eliane Robert Moraes (2003), Georges Bataille (1987), Julia Kristeva (1982), Octávio Paz (1995, 2014), and Zygmunt Bauman (2004). When reading the tale, we try to show how questions referring to the identity, to the self-discovery of the self and the homoerotic desire of the protagonist Sérgio are represented in the tex-ture of the narrative. Sérgio is a young man whose homoerotic desire leads him to be aware of his own identity, provoking a rupture and a transgression with the interdiction of the eroticism of bodies and desires through a language that stages the very eroticism of bodies. Aspects concerning the issue of closet and slander, understood as constitutive elements of a gay subjectivity, will also be analyzed in the course of the essay.porAcesso AbertoAbjeçãoAntonio de PáduaDesejo homoeróticoObscenoAbjectionHomoerotic desireObsceneArtigohttps://doi.org/10.22481/folio.v9i1.3244