A confissão antropofágica de Flávio Carneiro

Abstract

This paper aims the narrative discourse of Carneiro’s narrator in his novel, A confissão. The research seeks for the elements which may enlighten the subject who states his confession and also searches for the reasons that move him to act with violence against his listener. In Carneiro’s novel, the narrator presents this need to confess himself in order to inflict fear on a victim. Thus, a process akin to an antropophagic chain, in which the narrator swallows his listener while the reader swallows the narrator, was identified. The probed content of this paper has to do with the purposes that lead this confessor to enunciate a discourse full of justifications to his violence. Therefore, three goals can be distinguished in this research: to describe and analyze how the notion of hybridism appears in both narrative agencies: character’s discourse and literary form; to outline a profile that helps to access the subjectiveness of the narrator; to hypothesize what justify the adoption of confession followed by murderer as a solution to the dilemma of this confessor. In addition to these aims, there is the attempt of explaining in which ways this particular structure of the novel enables to name it contemporary.