A carnavalização no romance A morte e a morte de Quincas Berro Dágua, de Jorge Amado

Abstract

The present work seeks to conduct a study about the “Theory of Carnivalization”, developed by Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), applied to the novel A morte e a morte de Quincas Berro Dágua, written by Jorge Amado (1912-2001). The investigation consists in the identification of the theory in the content of the work studied. In the theoretical and methodological approach to perform such work, it was necessary an extensive literature survey of authors who have studied or are studying the same topic, and the information was obtained by bibliographic research, analysis, classification and interpretation of data collected. As a result and conclusion, we have observed in the literary criticism of the work all “carnivalization” features, provoking a desire to break the daily routine, where the hero escapes from a life subjected to rules and regulations and embraces another lifestyle without rules and regulations, but with profanations, thus creating a “carnivalized” text, where the author describes the actions of the hero in a upside down way, disconnected from the normal standards of social behavior, putting in the background issues like class struggles and social injustices, belonging to his first phase. The action revolves around the disqualified bohemian who lives in the docks and their option to break the shackles is their cry for freedom. On the basis of this study, the “carnivalization” will be used, with all elements of role reversal that the theory itself points us, as well as the critical text “De como e porque Jorge Amado em A morte e a morte de Quincas Berro Dágua é um autor carnavalizador, mesmo sem nunca ter-se preocupado com isto”, written by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna.