Espectros de Zola: a persistência instável da estética realista/naturalista na obra Morro Velho de Avelino Fóscolo

Abstract

This paper aims a hypothesis that is capable to justify the unstable endurance of the narrative form used by Avelino Fóscolo regarding the literary movements known as Realism/Naturalism as genre in his literary work Morro Velho (1999), using the Derrida’s concept of specter according to his conference Specters of Marx (1994) which was lectured in the University of California in 1993, being published afterwards. Starting from the late classification given to the novel as being attached to the late Naturalism associated to social protest novel and to a literary formula considered as overused, this paper will approach historical, social and literary aspects that allow us to understand the reasons of the recurrence of this artistic movement in 1940. Thereunto, this literary analysis will investigate the wide range of denominations that is pertinent to Naturalism in different circumstances, patterns and epochs, which can also be observed in diverse moments in Brazilian Literature as a consequence of factors that arose and remained throughout History as a trace.