Vozes e silenciamentos no romance, Menos que um, de Patrícia Melo e os desafios da arte na contemporaneidade

Abstract

The novel Menos que um, by Patrícia Melo, delves into the depths of the voices and silencing of minorities within contemporary society, addressing the challenges that art and people face in this context. The work stands out for its polyphony, a narrative technique that allows the coexistence of multiple voices and perspectives within the novel. Authors such as Mikhail Bakhtin (1990) and Gegörg Lukács (2009) offer valuable assumptions about the importance of the romance genre and the meaning of polyphony in literature. Less than one represents a relevant contribution in demonstrating how polyphony can be a powerful tool for the representation of human diversity and for the deconstruction of unilateral and exclusionary narratives. By giving voice to the silenced and broadening the spectrum of experiences portrayed, the work emphasizes the importance of art as a space for dialogue, resistance and transformation of minorities. Thus, we deal, in the first chapter of ascertain, in the light of theories, the novel, authors such as: Gegörg Lucáks, Fábio Lucas and Benjamin Adbala Júnior. In the second chapter, we present the polyphony of the novel, based on Bakhtinian theory, using his work Epos and novel, bringing to analysis the novel Menos que um, by Patrícia Melo in his multiple voices. Finally, in the third chapter, we approach literature and its relations with other arts in contemporary times, having as a theoretical basis, thinkers such as Julio Plaza, Haroldo de Campos and others more that deal with transcreation, in order to deepen a little more in the analysis of the novel object of this work, its language and its relations with other artistic forms