A literatura como espaço de construções utópicas : uma leitura de Quadrondo e de obras do cânone ficcional.

Abstract

This work aims at interpreting the novel Quadrondo, focusing on the Utopian thematic approached in the work. In this study the constructions of four utopias, in four texts of the literary canon, are also analyzed: The Republic by Plato; Utopia by Thomas More; The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella; and New Atlantis by Francis Bacon. According to the blochiano thought, the Utopian contents result from the subjectivity of human beings, who project, through daydreams, the future elimination of needs identified in the present. Hope stimulates individuals to believe in the possibility of materialization of everything they idealize. Once it turns out to be impossible in the reality level, literature becomes a tool for elaboration and resultant accomplishment of utopias. In Domingos Pellegrini´s fiction, after participating in the episode that ended up with the Fall of the Berlin Wall (fall of socialism milestone), the narrator abdicates the professor life to live in a non-existing island on the Paranaense coast, where he materializes his utopias based on the quadronda vision of human nature, by leading the construction and successful operation of a cooperative, besides meeting a beautiful and courageous girl, whom he 'marries' and has children.