IN BETWEEN PLACES AND NON-PLACES: THE WANDERING SUBJECT IN ATLANTIC HOTEL, BY JOÃO GILBERTO NOLL
Maria Suely de Oliveira Lopes | 96-104
The aim of this work is to analyse the wandering subject in the work AtlanticHotel by João Gilberto Noll starting from the story of a narrator-character which represents the postmodern subject in constant transition. This work will take a bibliographic approach where the story is read and analysed in the light of the ideas set forth by Stuart Hall (2005), Auge (1994), Santos (2004) among others. These authors discuss the issues of place, non-place and its implications for the construction of identity in post-modernity as well as the subjectivity of being. In AtlanticHotel (1995), João Gilberto Noll presents the narrative of a wandering man who rambles through places and non-places. The author emerges in contemporary times with a markedly dry and photographic language to focus on characters representing restlessness, disintegration, loneliness, fitting a man in conflict with his time. His writing is marked by the emptiness of relationships and the fragmentation of the subject that comprises a non-place of the lived and the imagined. InAtlantic Hotel, the anonymous narrator-protagonist lives an uprooted condition that makes him a walking subject is both in geographical and psychological space.
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