O problema e a tensão: formas de ausência em O beijo não vêm da boca e A Rainha dos cárceres da Grécia

Abstract

This research is a comparative study of the Brazilian novels O beijo não vem da boca (1985) by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão and A Rainha dos Cárceres da Grécia (1977) by Osman Lins, establishing from them a relation between absence and literary creation. Here, the narrative procedures are examined in order to identify the operation of the absence’s idea in both novels, whose narrators, who are also the protagonists, are in the grieving process and are trying to understand the loss of a beloved woman. The research is especially interested in the figure of these narrators because they are also writers – that is, producers of a second narrative within the narratives in which they are inserted – and so they use the poetic exercise in the effort to overcome the absence of their losses, therefore, the two novels are considered as a structure organized precisely from the absences they both face. The theoretical research of this study is made with contributions from Giorgio Agamben, Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, among others, as well as with the aid of general studies on narratology, combining them with a variety of literary texts in an attempt to reflect on the poetic language and the novel form in its manifestations.