Subversão e submissão da personagem Adèle no romance no Jardim do Ogro, de Leïla Slimani.

Abstract

This work has as its corpus the novel by the French-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani, In the Garden of the Ogre. The novel tells the story of Adèle, a female character who is married, mother and experiences numerous extramarital relationships, living her sexual desires. We elaborate a study about being woman from the female character of the novel because we consider that the author puts in question the common sense about being a woman, wife, mother in contemporary society. The research tried to answer the following question: what elements of subversion and submission are experienced by the character Adèle related to being a woman - mother and wife - in the novel In the Garden of the Ogre, by Leïla Slimani? To answer this question, we had as general objective to analyze the elements of subversion and submission of the character Adèle; and, as specific objectives: 1. to identify, in the narrative, aspects relevant to the characterization of the character Adèle as a woman, mother and wife; 2. observe the spaces that the character transits and their impacts on the relationships he experiences; and, 3. describe the processes of violence to which the character is subjected during the narrative. The research conducted was qualitative in nature and the methodological procedure was bibliographic. In the analysis we have theorists from various areas of knowledge; first, literature, but also sociology, psychology, as well as some classical feminist theorists, such as Beauvoir (2019), Badinter (1985), Saffioti (2015) and Alonso (2017) who studies Maghreb women writers. We deduce, in the analysis, that at first sight, we come across a character apparently independent who scapes the standards of being a woman, but we discover, a most attentive reading, an Adèle swallowed by feelings of guilt for not being a good wife, good mother and, throughout the narrative, is subjected to processes of violence against women, violence that should not be naturalized or justified by her betrayals.