O exílio de si como metáfora de um mundo em fragmentação : um estudo sobre Elias Canetti

Abstract

The meaning of self-exile that has been used in this work, constitutes itself in a kind of exile that is not chosen, neither imposed externally, because its occurrence is related to a structural injunction, from the psychism order. This way, the psychic exile , comdemns the person to a radical intimate weirdness feeling, where the world and the oneself unintelligibility prevails. From the psychoanalytic standpoint, this entity is called psychosis; from the current use of the language standpoint, it is called madness. Through a transversal cut in Elias Canetti biography, from the time the writer lived in and his relations to the German language, culture and literature, it is possible to identify in Peter Kien character and in the novel Auto de Fé, the points that support our hypothesis related to the self exile : that the use of the language that Canetti does, enables him to make a perfect representation of the psychic laceration that hits the novel protagonist, according to his relations to the world and to the other characters, as well as the subjective question fulfills the metaphor role of a world under fragmentation, not only from the one that was used as raw material for the work, also from the world today, that is nothing but the logical and direct consequence that was already announced at the beginning of the XX century.