A violência e o erotismo em Feliz Ano Novo e O Cobrador de Rubem.

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.