Literatura e descentramento: uma análise dos aspectos paratópicos na prosa de Hilda Hilst.

Abstract

This Dissertation, in which we analyzed three novels by Hilda Hilst: ‘You don't move from yourself’ (1980), ‘The obscene lady D’ (1982) and ‘With my dog eyes’ (1986), has as main objective to point out the paratopyc aspects in the selected works. ‘Paratopy is a concept formulated by Dominique Maingueneau and basically deals with the non-place created and occupied by some literature and its authors. Initially labeled an "outsider" author for occupying a controversial position in the literary field, primarily criticizing her essentially commercial aspects in interviews and between the lines of her literary work, Hilst tried not to fit the profiles labels for authors to achieve sales success or the general public as much as possible in her writings. She accomplishes this by bringing up uncomfortable topics and addressing taboos with a lack of etiquette or concern. Dealing with themes such as sexualized infancy, harassment, and even God, Hilst successfully exhibits and changes everything in jokes and laughs, albeit grotesque and nervous laughter, treating a daily tragedy as sarcastic themes, just like as the search for God and answers makes any sense. However, in given interviews, the desire to be read was always present, in other words, it was metaphorically present in many of the author's works. Since the mere fact of being in society, all literature writers are inserted in a degree of paratopy, while at the same time through their works offer a voice to society's pariahs whistle being a distant observer which writes its points of view and discrete details about the same society, creating other worlds referring the reader to habit and transport and localize itself in a no-place. We argue in this work that Hilst has difficulty reaching the previously described no-place occupied by its scholar pairs because her compositions easily immerse in a quantic spiral of consciousness flow, and the ever-present fight for not belonging in a literary mainstream niche keeps her in a paratopy, making her unbounded to a concept created by Maingueneau. To follow the lines drawn "randomly" by the author, we will study the author's literary language, as well as analysis of her characters (mirrors of the author inside her dilemmas) and study the space and time existing in non-linear ways inside narratives, which help to displace the author from a common place in the literary canon, even moving from its paratopic place to another yet not described and not located anywhere.