A POÉTICA E A RESSONÂNCIA DA LOUCURA EM "ABERRAÇÃO", DE BERNARDO CARVALHO

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze, with the support of the book History of Madness, by Michel Foucault, the ways in which the paradoxical world of the narrator of “Aberração”, a short story from the homonymous book by Bernardo Carvalho, is created and developed. In this universe, the reader is taken into extreme characteristics, like reason and madness, common sense and loss of reference, which begin to occupy the same space, dividing the same responsibilities and functions, in a continuous dialog of complementary contradiction. This enables a myriad of possibilities, which transform the narrative into a circular and labyrinthic game in which the psychological characteristics of the narrator seem to reflect the acceptable and the improbable, simultaneously. While witnessing this process, readers are exposed to their own and inevitable path where they try to reveal clues, traces and signs about the possible existence of multiple truths in a panorama that disturbs and captivates them, at the same time. Slowly, a process is created where details are transformed into determining factors and thus, when perceptions are inverted, the concepts of madness and reason come together, and both of them make sense and, concurrently, remain illogical. On emerging into a world in which limits disappear, readers are forced to unveil their own mystery in a narrative that combines illusion, sexuality and resonant hypnotism, while building and unstable yet provocative discourse.