MARTINS, T. L. L.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3557554221777967; MARTINS, Terezinha Luana Lopes.
Abstract:
This work aims to present a brief analysis of two tales: Happy New Year and The Collector,
the contemporary Brazilian writer José Rubem Fonseca. The first was short story published in
1975 a collection of short stories titled the same name, and the second in 1979, based on two
of the main issues addressed by the author throughout his literary career, violence and
eroticism. It is literature, in order to analyze these issues in the construction of the main
characters and the intended effects by the author in his readers, observing how the narrators
use is a raw and direct language, using profanity, used in the criminal underworld and serve it
to a more meaningful characterization of these "marginal". Moreover, although it was
intended to observe why censorship banned the book Happy New Year, as being a collection
of texts that incited violence. This work is based on the authors George Bataille, Freud and
Nadia Batella Gotlib, and also articles and essays developed around these themes this Author.
