“Era um silêncio de faca em ponto de corte”: uma análise do romance Paisagem de porcelana, de Claudia Nina

Abstract

The novel Paisagem de porcelana (2014), written by brazilian Claudia Nina, has as its protagonist Helena, who moves from Brazil to Amsterdam and, thereby, goes through many difficulties in feeling as she belongs. This feeling of constant isolation leads the protagonist Helena to get involved with Ernest, with whom she begins an abusive relationship. This idea becomes evident mainly by the silence of your partner, which the novel highlights in the narrative as notoriously violent behavior. These elements — such as violence and social isolation — play a fundamental role in the fragmentation of his identity, that is, the character, previously stable, no longer recognizes himself. Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyze how silence contributes to the protagonist's identity destabilization. Thereunto, this research was composed based on the theoretical contributions of Orlandi (2013), Breton (1999, 2006) and Tofalini (2020) about the silence; on Bourdie's (2020) theorizations about symbolic violence and on Hall's (2011) concepts upon identity.