O JOVEM TÖRLESS - ROMANCE DE FORMAÇÃO HETEROTOPIAS

Abstract

This thesis is an exploratory study of the novel The Young Törless, as a Bildungsroman and as heterotopia. For this, it took into account the point view of Foucault's about modernity and heterotopias of crisis crossed by the literary language. In this sense we studied some of the works of this author, in addition, of course, other authors in order to maintain a dialogue about the subject. Between the work of Foucault, it should be noted: The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish: The birth of the Prison; The Order of Discourse, Microphysics of Power, Dits et Écrits 3, and Le Corps Utopique - Les Heterotopies. The object of this thesis is the Bildungsroman as an original heterotopic place. The child development grows at the confluence of the two heterotopies: boarding school and adolescence. In the novel, the construction of the subjectivity is given by the forms of discourse production, by the power of relationships and affection in interpersonal relationships networks that are woven and woven as the narrative progresses. According to the adopted perspective, we studied the philosophical influences present in the novel and tried to show that The Young Törless as a Bildungsroman and as heterotopia exposes the relationships that underlie Törless subjectivity construction while he attends the boarding school in the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century.