THE SACRED VALUE OF DEATH IN UM DOCE AROMA DE MORTE, FROM GUILLERMO ARRIAGA
Guillermo Arriaga, fiction and screen writer seems to demonstrate a deep interest in Death as an important theme all over his work. We can verify it in films such as Amores Brutos (2000), 21 gramas (2003) and Babel (2006), but especially in his last novel published in Brazilnamed Um doce aroma de mo...
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2009-04-01
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| description | Guillermo Arriaga, fiction and screen writer seems to demonstrate a deep interest
in Death as an important theme all over his work. We can verify it in films such as Amores Brutos
(2000), 21 gramas (2003) and Babel (2006), but especially in his last novel published in Brazilnamed Um doce aroma de morte (2007). Using the countryside of Mexico, an arid and miserable region as the scenario for his story, the author demonstrates the way death can become
something sacred. Death in Um doce aroma de morte appears in his narrative as a construction that uses the limit as its main element, manifested in situations where a curious contemplation of the
livid, naked and aromatic body of Adela emerges. The bad smell and the degradation of the body
that serve as evidence for the physical death are diluted in the bittersweet floral smell that gives
off from Adelas body. In this way, thinking Death as a sort of leit motiv in the Arraigas narrative we purpose to understand it in two different movements: The ritual that involves the deaths
body and the sacred aura related to the characters death. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ffe6e7dfeaf94f11aeed2e833fb2f7532022-12-22T01:20:53ZporUniversidade Estadual do Oeste do ParanáTravessias1982-59352009-04-01312944THE SACRED VALUE OF DEATH IN UM DOCE AROMA DE MORTE, FROM GUILLERMO ARRIAGABárbara Cristina MarquesGuillermo Arriaga, fiction and screen writer seems to demonstrate a deep interest in Death as an important theme all over his work. We can verify it in films such as Amores Brutos (2000), 21 gramas (2003) and Babel (2006), but especially in his last novel published in Brazilnamed Um doce aroma de morte (2007). Using the countryside of Mexico, an arid and miserable region as the scenario for his story, the author demonstrates the way death can become something sacred. Death in Um doce aroma de morte appears in his narrative as a construction that uses the limit as its main element, manifested in situations where a curious contemplation of the livid, naked and aromatic body of Adela emerges. The bad smell and the degradation of the body that serve as evidence for the physical death are diluted in the bittersweet floral smell that gives off from Adelas body. In this way, thinking Death as a sort of leit motiv in the Arraigas narrative we purpose to understand it in two different movements: The ritual that involves the deaths body and the sacred aura related to the characters death.http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/3269mortenarrativaguilhermo arriagasagrado. |
| spellingShingle | Bárbara Cristina Marques THE SACRED VALUE OF DEATH IN UM DOCE AROMA DE MORTE, FROM GUILLERMO ARRIAGA Travessias morte narrativa guilhermo arriaga sagrado. |
| title | THE SACRED VALUE OF DEATH IN UM DOCE AROMA DE MORTE, FROM GUILLERMO ARRIAGA |
| title_full | THE SACRED VALUE OF DEATH IN UM DOCE AROMA DE MORTE, FROM GUILLERMO ARRIAGA |
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| title_short | THE SACRED VALUE OF DEATH IN UM DOCE AROMA DE MORTE, FROM GUILLERMO ARRIAGA |
| title_sort | sacred value of death in um doce aroma de morte from guillermo arriaga |
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