Fraturas da metrópole. Objetividade e crise do romance em Berlin Alexanderplatz / Fractures of the metropolis: Objectivity and the crisis of the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz
AUTOR(ES)
Gabriela Siqueira Bitencourt
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
Published in 1929, Berlin Alexanderplatz, a novel by Alfred Döblin, was considered - since its first reviews - a landmark in German literature. Its novelty resided above all in the use of the techniques of collage and montage, the use of which made possible that fragments collected in the metropolis could be inserted in the novel as its own formal matter. What Döblin has tried to do with that was to displace the position usually afforded to the metropolis, from object of representation to subject of enunciation. This dissertation engages in an analysis of the narrative formal composition in order to understand what this new position - conquered by the metropolis in Berlin Alexanderplatz - implies to the genre. This problem is in constant dialogue with the very important "crises of the novel" issue, which supported much of the literary debate of the time and has a corresponding development in Döblins own theoretical production from 1910 to 1930. Contrasting Berlin Alexanderplatz to the questions posed in these theoretical texts makes the relationship of the novel with its own time even more explicit. Moreover there is a strict coincidence between the importance of objectivity in a good deal of Döblins theory and the presuppositions of the most characteristic artistic movement of the Weimer Republic, the Neue Sachlichkeit. To examine this convergence helps us cast some light on the problems of a narrative that dialectically oscillates between the representation of an individual destiny and the search for a realist montage/image of the metropolis. All this dialogues, besides the confrontation with the novel tradition, help us glimpse some of the elements that headed towards the configuration of this, in Döblins own words, "epic of modernity".
ASSUNTO(S)
montagem/colagem berlin alexanderplatz metrópole alfred döblin realismo teoria do romance montage/collage realism metropolis theory of the novel alfred döblin berlin alexanderplatz
