Passeio Noturno e Bacurau: modos de representar a violência latino-americana

Abstract

As it is something inherent in the daily life of Latin America, violence ends up becoming a raw material widely used by artists originating from it. With this aspect in mind, this article has as its theme the representation of violence in two narratives set in Brazil: a short story written by Rubem Fonseca and a film directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. The aim is to examine, in a passage of each title, how the authors elaborate situations of brutality in their respective works, considering differences and similarities between literary and cinematographic forms. The corpus consists of the short story "Passeio noturno", which is part of the compilation Feliz ano novo (1976), and the feature film Bacurau (2019). In this way, the methodological path makes use of the selective appropriation of essays on narrative aspects, both in literature and in cinema, and about violence. Thus, we take as theoretical support critical and analytical texts from scholars such as Castor Bartolomé Ruiz (2014), Marilena Chaui (2015), Gérard Genette (2017), Antonio Candido (2011), Stephen Prince (2003) and Ismail Xavier (2019). In the end, it is expected to demonstrate how the use of certain expressive resources singularizes situations that, inserted in daily life, would lose their impact, besides being works that represent the continuity of a brutality historically linked to Latin America.