A educação pela linguagem em Perto do coração selvagem e A maçã no escuro

Abstract

In Near to the wild heart and The apple in the dark, the protagonists oscillate between the approach with other individuals and the isolation, like a kind of exercise of learning before the existence. And in this process of dramatic education, language is often expressed in a way transgressive. Joana and Martim are never satisfied with the questions they ask and so little with the answers they reach. But his trajectories of anxiety show, under various nuances, the helplessness of the human condition, so well represented by the form of the novel