Mulheres em travessia: uma análise da trajetória das personagens femininas construídas sob o signo da prostituição em Guimarães Rosa e Konstantin Christoff

Abstract

This work aimed to discuss two narratives in dialogue with a focus on the trajectory of female characters built under the sign of prostitution. Emphasis was placed on the conversion of the traditional meaning that the word “prostitute”, its synonyms, and the condition underlying it assume from the point of view proposed in Guimarães Rosa’s reflections on Doralda and, in the background, Analma and Izilda, in the tale Dão-Lalalão (the debtor), and Konstantin Christoff, on Yêdde, Dona Lola Goiana and the girls of the boarding house based on the series of his self-portraits, carried out from 1982 to 2006. Our interpretation was guided by the inter-arts research methodology. The concepts of eroticism and archetype were approached to arrive at the concept of the femme fatale or phallic woman from their echoes in artistic production. An analysis was made of the portrayal of the character Salomé as femme fatale, until the approximation of her similarities with the target characters of our study. Our comments were initially guided by studies by Bataille (2017), Moraes (2017), and Sant’Anna (1993). Finally, thinking about the transit and dialogue between these characters, we discuss their starting and ending points in the narratives: the bed, marital bed or cabaret alcove, thinking about the symbolic and geographical paths and displacements that make up their stories. To do so, the critical fortune on heroism and sensuality in Dão-Lalalão, and the concept of trajectory and intertextuality present in both works was approached, the latter being used as a tool for transgression in the narratives.