Judas da mata feito asverodo rio a condição humana e a herança simbólica da violência em “Judas asvero”, de Euclides da cunha.

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Written in 1905, published in 1909 a collection of essays "In the history of the Margin," "Judas Asvero" is the text whose contents reports with dramatic intensity the celebration of Holy Saturday in a rubber tappers village in Alto Purus. The climax of the narrative is the cooking rite, presentation, scrutiny of a rag doll "Judas." The narrative constructed by Euclides da Cunha recalls the strangeness of a playful task of symbolic and social preparation of the violence, the ritual of "Burning of Judas". For the narrator the making and the sacrifice of the doll made by rubber tappers symbolizes the evocation of a horror supposedly familiar, such as "Judas" was the existential similarity latex frontiersman, traitor and wandering. The stagnant and decaying landscape, where man Amazonian express their cultural, societal and existential condition makes the socio-cultural constructs expressions of Amazonian identity in a colonizer / colonized game, in which the metamorphosis of Judas Iscariot Judas Asveros expressed in the act of working out the puppet points to a human condition in the forest formed by a symbolic heritage of violence socially reinserts the tapper culture and community life. Keywords: Amazon. Human Condition. Identity. Literature. Violence