Rubem Fonseca, from lyricism to violence

Abstract

Through the analysis of characters created by the writer Rubem Fonseca from Rio de Janeiro - mostly from his short-stories - his career as a fiction writer is recreated, from his lyricism (until 1969, with Lúcia McCartney) to his later phase, including August, in which violence prevails and lyricism persists either under disguises or as a parody, always within what Lukács named the "Romanticism of disillusionment", that is, in the confrontation between contenful subjectivities and society's empty objectivity .