HENRI: THE CRUELTY IN THE RUBEM FONSECA'S TALE

This work intends to analyze the Henri story, published by Rubem Fonseca in his anthology "The Prisoners", of 1963. The general objective of the research is to work with the literature called brutalist, and that is related to cruel, to violence. The main objectives of this work are, first of all, to identify if there are elements that compose the aforementioned literature, in the background, is to analyze the elements that characterize the cruelty in the story of Rubem Fonseca. Cruelty, violence and even the demonic are elements of a literature that has much to be analyzed and, of course, researched, this type of literature allows the reader to see something that in terms, is almost always in the shadows or that composes the periphery in the broad sense. Cruelty and violence are elements of a literature that directly affects the reader's intimacy, transporting it to a situation of reading that arouses discomfort, but provides a new perspective of seeing literature less innocently than it is assumed he owns. For this investigation the following theorists were used: Angela Maria Dias e Paula Glenadel (2004), Jaime Guinzburg (2012), Ronaldo Lima Lins (1990), Georges Bataille (2015), Joel Birman (2009), among others who study this strand of literature.