A Trajetória do Mito e a Condição Humana nos Contos de Via-Sacra e a Cidade do Ócio, de José Mendonça Teles

Abstract

Is at work studying the trajectory of Myth and the Human Condition in tales of Via Sacra, and A Cidade do Ó’cio, from Jose Mendonça Teles. It is part of our proposal to give special attention to the trajectory of the anonymous man in the city that smashes through violence, the mass, the eroticism, the consumerism and many other phenomena typical of this season. We will use mainly the phenomenological method, so we want to capture the philosophical lines inserted in the process established by the poetics of J.M.T. We want to analyze the characters in various aspects of “types failed, individuals grinder, incompetent to live” in the words of Mario de Andrade. We emphasize these fictitious beings created by the imbalance hypocrisy in marital relations, the search for “meaning to life”, the struggle for survival in a city whose doors are closed to those who have not had opportunities to carry the arsenal necessary to war for a good job; the anguish of those who wish to have loyalty to the values which were transmitted and at the same time, with no strength to resist the pleasure that life offers them (mainly the sex). All these factors become grounds to bring the characters to falling out with themselves, with others and the environment, polarized by antagonism Ethics and Pleasure, Pleasure and Punishment. We will focus on the long journey of the characters, they will journey into building (or destroying) the most diverse representations of themselves, according to the situations presented to them. We capture the species of oppression and adulteration that urban life is presenting the man in megacities (Goiania, specifically), in the process of metamorphosis from quiet provincials cities that are transformed into “chaos embryos of contemporary society and modernity” as Camus (1999 p.130) Living in a city is an art, the narrator therefore needs the vocabulary of art and style to create unique relationship between man and space that exists in the continuous creative interaction of urban life in Goiania. The style and art that is the prime objective of this work.