Post-64 brazilian fiction: considerations on the authoritarianism and the fragmentation in Ivan Ângelo’s A festa

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a reading of Ivan Ângelo’s A festa, published in 1976, with emphasis on the relationship between the formal fragmentation and the dictatorship in Brazil. Beginning with Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin’s theoretical elements, we articulate the idea that the aesthetic form of the novel is constrained by social antagonisms. It was found that many aspects present in the book being studied (aesthetic fragmentation, degradation of the subject, marks of violence and authoritarianism) are common in other relevant works of the period. In this sense, it is possible to conclude that there is a relationship between the conditions of production and artistic presentation in specific socialhistorical circumstances.