To apprehend the hatred and the violence in Gog Magog, by Patrícia Melo

Abstract

This article aims to point out the resignification given by contemporary Brazilian literature to the manifestations of violence in the institutional and private spheres of human life, based on the literary work written by Patrícia Melo, Gog Magog (2017). It discussed how the literary work manages to apprehend the indifference, hatred, and violence arising from fragmented human relations in contemporaneity. For such purpose, this article is divided into five moments: the statistical perspective of Brazil represented in a novel; literature as a questioning of the immediacy and dissolution in human relations; when the dialogue is interrupted; noise as a representation of the lack of communication in contemporary human relations; and, finally, the delimitations between structural violence and the ones reflected in private life.