"What does a woman want": Female characters in there were many horses "O que quer uma mulher": Figuras femininas em Eles eram muitos cavalos

Pereira H.B.C.

"What does a woman want": Female characters in there were many horses "O que quer uma mulher": Figuras femininas em Eles eram muitos cavalos

Tipo

Artigo

Data de publicação

2016

Periódico

Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporanea

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0

Autores

Pereira H.B.C.

Resumo

There were many horses has become a milestone in contemporary Brazilian prose thanks to its highly creative representation of the metropolis, The narrative's rich prose is expressed by textual strategies such as fragmentation, collage, the enumeration, the non-sense, all derived from a modernist heritage, which Ruffato. Updates. This essay highlights the textual fragmentation that creates a shattered urban reality made up by degraded spaces where diverse characters wander, some integrated into the urban life, but nevertheless maladjusted to their social roles, others belonging to the popular and middle social strata, and others still, being subject to social exclusion, submerged in poverty, violence and alienation. In particular this essay looks at a parade of female characters, under the dual lens of the stylistic diversity through which they are constructed, and the power of socioeconomics and cultural representations of the contemporary metropolis.