"I write the body, I show taste": João Gilberto Noll under the crack of desire.
Novel. In the open. Homoeroticism. Body. Contemporary.
This research analyzes the novel A Céu Aberto (1996), by João Gilberto Noll, circumspecting the configuration of homoeroticism in the narrative, as well as the aesthetic-literary composition mechanisms that engender the Nollian characters in question. The analysis aims to outline an analytical-literary approach through the bias of theories that deal with the constitution of the body as a literary device. The way in which the narrator establishes the presentificationof bodies, in the novel, seems to demarcate a complex and bifurcated territory regarding the homoerotic archeology present in the narrative course of the characters, having as its basic premise the analysis of the constitution of erotic literature, in order to describe the author's writing as a corrosive spelling, observing the body in transfiguration. The study achieves relevance since it observes the Nollian narrative under two aegis, namely: that of the fragmented body and, in turn, the exhausted, spent body. Both domains configure a homoerotic representation established by the notion of loss, of the rest and, above all, of the ephemeral. From this perspective, starting from studies on theory and literary erotica, we will primarily use the studies of: Georges BATAILLE (1987), Camille DUMOULIE (2005) Antonio CANDIDO (2012), and Luís Alberto BRANDÃO (2019).