TRADITION, CONTEMPORANEITY, AND BOREDOM IN THE NOVEL CAMPO DE SANGUE, BY DULCE MARIA CARDOSO
tradition; contemporaneity; boredom; ruin; Dulce Maria Cardoso
Campo de Sangue, a novel written by Dulce Maria Cardoso in 2002, describes a man without self-confidence, passions or dreams, who does not like or hate anything in particular. Deeply bored, he lives immersed in a present guided by the small variations he checks on the clock. The time he spends, on the other hand, highlights the ruins around him and the ruin of his own sanity, in a plot that can be interpreted, in different ways, by the notion of “fall”. Thus, we will discuss how, in the contemporary microcosm of Campo de sangue, boredom appears alongside the ruins of tradition and as an absence of any political-social objective. In our discussion about “tradition, contemporaneity, and boredom”, we will dialogue with Lars Svendsen (2006), Walter Benjamin (1994), Erich Fromm (2015), Jacques Le Goff (2013), and Octavio Paz (2013).