Dom Pantero no Palco Ensanguentado: violência no universo de Ariano Suassuna

Abstract

This paper aims to look at Ariano Suassuna's posthumous novel, Romance de Dom Pantero no Palco dos Pecadores, in order to think about the work through the prism of violence. The author is best known to the general public for his " aulas-espetáculo " and for his most popular work, O Auto da Compadecida. Both are largely comedy-oriented, but Ariano Suassuna's work as a whole is also full of blood and violence, in the clashes between “Brasil-Real” and “Brasil-Oficial”. In his latest novel, Dom Pantero is a dreamer who thinks that through the legacy of his great work, his greatest "Ilumiara" will be built, the castle that will protect the culture and people of Royal Brazil. However, through the eyes of Dom Pantero, his great clown narrator, Suassuna exposes the process of extreme violence involved in building this violent structure. With theoretical support from critics of the author's work and works on violence itself and violence in literature, we sought to think about this other face of the writer, playwright, painter and professor, Ariano Suassuna.