<i>Jerusalem</i> by Gonçalo M. Tavares: novel-investigation on evil
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https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v9i19.29936Keywords:
Gonçalo Tavares, investigation, evil, madness, Foucault, Arendt.Abstract
The novel Jerusalem is a profound reflection on the evil that spreads as a destructive pulsion, veiling the disciplinary devices of power-knowledge that alienate. Based on Sloterdijk’s catastrophe pedagogy and on the intertextuality that articulate the rewriting of the nazi concentration camp and the Bible, the text questions the evolution of horror and the enigma of Mylia’s schizophrenia that, following Foucault, deconstructs the foundations of psychiatry. Accomplishing the outlines of an essay, this work of fiction resorts to Arendt’s thought to create a critical consciousness on the reader. Madness is the allegory of ethical values decadence and the lucidity of a plural demand of meaning constructed from the affirmation of the creative memory of the past.
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