Topologias do desejo em O que te pertence, de Garth Greenwell

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ABSTRACT

In this article, we inted to construct a spatial analysis of the novel What belongs to you, by Garth Greenwell. Originally published in 2016, the novel narrates the involvement between an American high school teacher, resident in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a prostitute named Mitko, who provides his services in public urinals in the Bulgarian capital. By constructing a narrative based on memory, in which he describes his encounters with Mitko, and the formative incidents of his childhood, the narrator continuously examines and describes the urban topographies of Sofia, articulating them with his own subjectivity. In these terms, and based on the theoretical-critical assumptions of Dimas (1985), Foucault (2013), Augé (1994), Humphreys (1979) and Espinoza (2019), we intend to explicit how the narrator’s perspective is based in what we call a desireous look of cruising, that is, ways of perceiving spatiality, linked to desire and the anonymous enjoyment of male homoeroticism.