Between lie and secret: form of life of the actor“househusband” in “Borralheiro”, by Fabrício Carpinejar

Abstract

Based on the theoretical and methodological apparatus of french semiotics, the present study aims at understanding how the actor “househusband” is built in the book of chronicles Borralheiro, by Fabrício Carpinejar. To do so, it analyses, besides the actancial role which stablishes himself as an actant-subjet, the thematic and the pathemic roles responsible for his individuation, as well as the constitution of a new form of life which he assumes (or not) in the interaction with other. As the main hypothesis, a possible tension between a way of appearing and a way of being, tension which leads to the verification of possible simulations and/or dissimulations in the configuration of the new form of life. In this verification, the study explores, yet, the humor as a strategy of the enunciative praxis that aims at destabilizing fixed forms (in the case, sociocultural stereotypes) and sensitizing the enunciatee to the emergency of new ways of “being a man”.