Escritas do desabrigo na ficção de Lourenço Mutarelli: O cheiro do ralo, O natimorto e A arte de produzir efeito sem causa

Abstract

Starting from three literary texts by Lourenço Mutarelli – O cheiro do ralo (The smell of the drain), O natimorto (The stillborn) and A arte de produzir efeito sem causa (The art of producing an effect without a cause), the research aims to present a panoramic view of contemporary Brazilian literature through the expression “writings of homelessness”. It intends to show how the author's narratives, published at the beginning of the 21st century, radicalize the “homelessness” thematized by Georg Lukács's Theory of Romance, exactly one hundred years earlier. Lourenço Mutarelli's narratives carry the mark of the characters' psychological illness: they incorporate what they narrate, resulting in an unstable text that moves according to the disorder that is presented. The bet is that there is a double and simultaneous movement that questions the identity as a definition the person portrayed and also the usual classification criteria when referring to literature (such as gender, meaning, work and authorship). The relationship between the protagonists with the big city are discussed, from which they withdraw to live in small and closed spaces; and also the community perspective that can approach this kind of literature. The research is supported by the thougt and writings of Walter Benjamin on the themes of life in the metropolis, the notion of “experience” and the forms of nomination practiced by our society; and also in philosophical studies on contemporary communities, namely the work of Roberto Esposito and Jean-Luc Nancy. In order to compose a picture of the “writings of homelessness”, a dialogue with some narratives by the Brazilian Elvira Vigna and the Peruvian-Mexican Mario Bellatin is proposed.