Oral (Tema Livre)
750-1 | Fury and Fall: Rushdie, Derrida, and Milton | Autores: | Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá (UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) |
Resumo Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous doll maker, steps out of his life, abandons his family in London, and flees for New York. There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. With this overall plot in mind, this article articulates this ex-centric and unusual fury in relation to John Milton’s Paradise Lost with a view to discussing Jacques Derrida’s notion of “destinerrance” as a possible alternative to literary influence. The article also examines what sorts of religious, literary, philosophical, and/or mythical references that appear throughout the novel and that resonate to the epic poem. Rushdie writes, “Life is fury. Fury–sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal–drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths.” In brief, this fury can and ought to be related to the Fall and its outcomes. |