Notas sobre a dissimulação em Jóias de família de Zulmira Tavares Ribeiro

Abstract

In this work I present an incursion into Zulmira Tavares Ribeiro's novel, Jóias de família, (Family Jewel) rescuing, when possible, excerpts that illustrate the practice, by the various characters, of attitudes guided by dissimulation. For this purpose, and especially for the validity that the approach provides, along that interpretative path, I find support in deconstructionist theory as it discusses the category of what is 'hidden' and, thereby, it will flow into Freudian thought as it relates to the stranger, or, what is repressed / restrained. The path taken supports us to conclude, despite the assertion seem unusual, that as it was for the family Munhoz, the only way to to address the lack of meaning in everyday life is trhough the enactment of their acts, as if it were plausible the equivalence between the real world and the stage of a theater.