Violence and eroticism in the writing of Moscow, by Edyr Augusto

Abstract

The novel Moscow (2015), by the brazilian author Edyr Augusto Proença received little attention from specialized critics so far. The present study will present an adaptation of my master's thesis which brings an analysis with the goal of investigating the violence in the novel under an erotic bias, from its materialization in the performative writing of the narrative in focus. Starting from the hypothesis that the transgression of the aesthetic distance of the Moscow narrator provokes eroticism and violence in the writing, to an extent that establishes a continuity and presence effect, within the scope of narrative performance, of its other: the reader. Understanding that the narrator affects, with the discourse, the reader and that this affection, by itself, is erotic, the conception of erotic and violence in Bataille (2017a) acts as conductive element to the central core of the study, associated with a process of profanation, by Agamben (2007).