Figurações do estrangeiro em Berkeley em Bellagio e Lorde, de João Gilberto Noll

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the novels Berkeley em Bellagio and Lord by Joao Gilberto Noll considering the perspective of the foreign as a power line that runs through both novels. These works of fiction were considered - in the context of Nolls production - a diptych. It is possible to identify in the authors first 21st century novels a particular way of writing about traveling which invites us to bring together the travelers staged there as his audience and the man who sees himself as a foreign. As the narrator-protagonists undertake journeys abroad, they subject their own identity to questioning. They recognize not only a temporary situationof those who are outside their country of origin, but rather a subjective structural condition. The conflicts engendered in a strange land - whether in relation to language, as in Berkeley em Bellagio, wheter in confrontation with self-image, as in Lord - lead us to think, with thesupport of Julia Kristevas arguments, that the notion of being abroad, in Noll, appears as something that is beyond conventional definitions, lying mainly in the realm of subjectivity.