Abandonment, submission and violence: the demystification of love in helena terra’s novel
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v24i1.27563Keywords:
Female authorship novel, Helena Terra, liquid virtual relationshipsAbstract
The aim of this work is to analyze the fragility of contemporary affective relationships, from the trajectory of the protagonist of the novel A condicção indestrutível de ter sido, by Helena Terra (2013). Thus, it seeks to reflect on how the cybernetic environment corroborates the feeling of frustration that plagues the character, who invests too much expectation in the lover, who reveals to be fickle and oppressive. Thus, the novel presents a female figure who represses her emotions to satisfy social standards and tries to seek in the “other” the satisfaction of her sentimental longings; consequently, it demystifies the ideal of western romantic love. The research is based on studies from Cultural Studies such as, among others, Bauman (2004), Cevasco (2019) and Zolin (2019).
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