RUPTURES OF A LIFE THROUGH HALF: IDENTITY CONFIGURATION IN DEHUMANIZATION, BY VALTER HUGO MÃE
Valter Hugo Mãe. Identity. Twins. Dehumanization
Literature is an art that allows us to digress about ourselves and to reflect our actions through the complex experiences of different characters that are presented to us in the most different literary narratives. The role of literature as reflected by Candido (1980) is to humanize. Having made these considerations, this research proposes to explore the identity changes suffered by the central character, Halldora, henceforth Halla, in the contemporary novel by Valter Hugo Mãe, A dehumanization (2014). We encourage discussion about the rupture of the character's identity and her grieving process before the death of the twin sister, mentioned above, the environment in which the narrative is developed, the surprisingly poetic writing of the work, in addition to the reservations about the connection of identical twins in literature. With theoretical support Freud (2011), Hall (2006), Bakhtin (1988), Adorno (2003), Bosi (2000) and Todorov (2020).