<b>The sublime and the grotesque: obscenity in Hilda Hilst

• Main Author: Jo A-mi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2016-08-01
• Series: Acta Scientiarum : Language and Culture
• Subjects: literatura hilstiana; fluxo linguístico-imagético; obsceno.
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/31147

The present work aims to discuss the dialogical relationship between sublime and grotesque in the work A obscena Senhora D by Hilda Hilst, based on its status of contemporary fiction permeated by reconditioning of the language in its performance in the non-linear time. In this sense, it was used studies of the sublime, as a historical and philosophical and literary concept in the works of Longinus, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Victor Hugo and François Lyotard; issues relating to discussions on the grotesque and its dialogue with the sublime ways, the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Maffesoli had great importance - the poetic and obscene relationship of the work discussed in convergent concepts such as obscenity, eroticism, sacred and profane. From these analyzes, it was concluded that in A obscena senhora D the sublime and the grotesque show in a multifaceted character, contradictory, interlocutory, and therefore not exclusionary: solidifying the hybrid linguistic-imagistic flow of the hilstiana literature.