A PRESENÇA DO RATO: UM OLHAR SOBRE A MONSTRUOSIDADE EM O RISO DOS RATOS (2021), DE JOCA REINERS TERRON

Abstract

This research analyzes how monstrosity is constructed in the novel Riso dos Ratos (2021), by Joca Reiners Terron. To this end, specific actions will include, in the first chapter, delineating animality through a ratography, a term that we seek to construct in this research based on the observation of the presence of the rat in the history of Western literature, as well as in the novel by Joca R. Terron, as the figure of the mouse is lurking, accompanying the character in the narrative. In the second, The violent traps that harm the body and space like mousetraps will allow us to discuss the violated body, which is trapped in the mousetrap, at the mercy of brutality. In the third, we observe the destruction of time in a dystopian narrative and the construction of the monstrosity seen in the social structure that feeds inequality in the uses of power. The methodology is of a bibliographic nature, which comprised some steps, such as book reception research, theoretical research, in particular, some concepts that permeate the work, and the main texts used in theoretical reflections were by Cohen (2000), Foucault (2001), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1997), José Gil (1997) and Giorgio Agamben (2017). In this way, the analysis points out that The Laughter of Rats (2021) is a narrative that ties together time, space and characters, in a way that makes dystopian traits evident such as monstrosity, the destruction of historical time and the abuse of power by absence of standard.