O impossível verivérbio: Famigerado, de G. Rosa, como alegoria do poder simbólico

Abstract

The tale Famigerado, by João Guimarães Rosa, read from the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu, helps us to demonstrate that language is an instrument of domination and violence. We criticize the reading of the tale that defends the idea that illiteracy can be equivalent to the most primitive encounter with language. We insist on the thesis that the symbolic power permeates the relations of power, constituting and maintaining them. We conclude by supporting the hypothesis that the tale can be read as an allegory of the encounter between the physical force of the “jagunço” and the symbolic power incarnated by the doctor, narrator of the tale. Such an encounter makes explicit the invisibility of symbolic violence, made visible, however, through literature.