Abismo

O termo "mise en abyme" é geralmente definido como "alguma coisa dentro de uma outra igual a si", mas o conceito revela-se bem mais complexo... O seguinte ensaio corresponde a uma breve leitura à primeira parte do texto de Dallenbach de forma a (tentar) compreender o conceito de "mise en abyme"...

The symbol of Babylon has been interpreted with a common worldview in mind, the Great Mother concept. Although this concept comes from Neolithic times, its written sources appeared in Sumerian literature. This article considers some Sumerian myths of the goddess Inanna/Ishtar in the evaluation of Revelation 17. In the comparison of Inanna/Ishtar myths with Revelation 17, the analysis demonstrates that perhaps John echoes the Great Mother concept and some Inanna/Ishtar characteristics ironically. John presents the mistaken belief that the religiopolitical union would bring peace and prosperity to the nation and, unlike those ancient myths, the beast/kings will resurrect to die forever.

"Este ensaio analisa o conto de Lygia Fagundes Telles intitulado “Venha ver o pôr-do-sol”, enfatizando a presença de elementos constituintes de uma arquetipologia da morte, à qual se vincula uma série de símbolos responsáveis por consolidar a atmosfera lúgubre da trama e conduzir o leitor sempre em tensão por seus meandros. Busca-se evidenciar de que maneira a autora utiliza-os para construir uma linha de ascensão e queda que percorre toda a narrativa, sinalizando que o movimento ascensional em nada divino culmina na engolição pelo abismo voraz.


This essay analyses the short-story “Venha ver o pôr-do-sol”, by Lygia Fagundes Telles, emphasizing the presence of elements that constitute an archetypology of death, which is related to a series of symbols that provide the story with a dark atmosphere and conduct the reader, always in a tense mood, through its paths. It intends to cast light on how the writer uses those elements in order to build a line of ascension and fall that crosses the whole narrative, signalizing that such ascensional movement, which does not have divine features, ends up in the swallowing of a character by the ravenous abyss."

As an essay or meditation, this article approaches philosophically some characters protagonists of certain television series framed in the (sub) genre of the psychological and introspective thriller. It seeks to analyze in them their existential attitude to the evil of the human being, with which they fight day by day, and which tests their moral resistance, while making them privileged connoisseurs of the human soul. At bottom, it is a matter of threading a possible ontology of the abyss.

Keywords: thriller, nordic noir, tragedy, problematic, abyss, emptiness

Como ensayo o meditación, este artículo aborda filosóficamente algunos personajes protagonistas de ciertas series televisivas encuadradas en el (sub) género del thriller psicológico e introspectivo. Busca analizar en ellos su actitud existencial respecto al mal del ser humano, con el que luchan día a día, y que pone a prueba su resistencia moral, al tiempo que los hace conocedores privilegiados del alma humana. En el fondo, se trata de enhebrar una posible ontología del abismo.

Palabras clave: thriller, nordic noir, tragedia, problemático, abismo, vacío.