David e Sérgio: vozes do homoerotismo em Charles Dickens e Raul Pompéia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the novels David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens and O Ateneu (1888) by Raul Pompeia, comparing the points that are common to both. The novels are narrated in the first person and its structure built from the memories of narrators David and Sergio who seek to reconstruct their past. We pursue to relate the narrative arrangement with the possible meanings based on the novel. The relationships illustrated by the pages of Dickens and Pompeia can be interpreted based on the concept of homoeroticism, which is possible because of the monosexual space of the boarding school. We point questions related to family and school, as well as their value in identity formation, in parallel with the emergence of behaviors that we can read as homoerotic. Based on these sources, the study proposes to unravel the possible links between family, school and individual. To achieve this, we use Goffman's (2010) theories, which show the totalitarian atmosphere of the institutional space, as well as Sandanello's (2015) texts about the narrative problem of Pompeia's novel, as well as social historical texts such as Mary Del Priore (2016).