Velhice feminina: a sexualidade reconfigurada no espaço narrativo

Abstract

Under the prejudiced eye over women's beauty, specially on the old age, the charging that the woman should look younger is recurrent. This acadernic work discusses the reconfiguration of the old aged women 's body, in relationships, from the short story "Boa noite, Maria", of Lygia Fagundes Telles, 1998, which narrative 's voice is represented by an older woman who is in an unusual relationship with a younger man, described as an "ideal" man. She decides to have him to help her in the task of dying, before the painful and unpleasant process that precedes death by a cureless disease starts. Therefore, it tells us about a love and death story. Thus, this tale opens the doors for a discussion that has euthanasia as a starting point and puts in debate how can an old woman choose to get herself delude or conscious; to feel pleasure or to suffer; to desire the irnprobable to happen or to be happy; to live or to die; to make choices, at last. This text's narrative brings us a transgressive approach of the relationships between a man and a woman when it has its regular order over the other 's idealization inverted. All this male figure making which look is capable of seeing the beauty in a woman who isn't that one offered by the mass media constitutes a redirection of what is founded on the literature wrote by men or under the male perspective, which in the woman that is the one idealized. The writer, thus, composes a character that is falsely created under the standards of the other's idealization, but also gives him qualities that allows a happy living together for both. She makes a literature of the meeting. With that narration movement, the writer articulates another space of enunciation.