Abstract
Rereading Hesiod: the race myth in J. M. Coetzees Age of iron. This essay analyzes how South African novelist J. M. Coetzee focuses the Hesiodic myth of the four races in his novel Age of iron. First the construction of Hesiod's text is analyzed, highlighting how races are exposed according to a presumed progressive decadence in accordance to the peculiar temporality of each one of them, and to their cyclic character. Next, the essay focuses on how the notion of a world in which disorder increasingly gives way to injustice, disgrace and death is associated with the South Africa of the apartheid era dipicted by Coetzee, and how the country is depicted as a terminally ill society. Then, the study proceeds to demonstrate how sickness, old age, death and, ignorance of the future that characterize Hesiod's Age of Iron are reread by Coetzee in this novel context.
Highlights
Este estudo centra-se na maneira pela qual o escritor sul-africano, J
Essa forma pervertida e perversa de maternidade, mais ligada à morte do que à vida, não apenas reforça a dissolução dos laços entre mães e filhos como acentua a ambiência de doença e terminalidade que perpassa o romance desde seu início
A presente análise da releitura de Hesíodo em A idade do ferro permite perceber como Coetzee, sem se afastar da estrutura norteadora do mito das raças, recriou-o, aplicando-o à época férrea em que vigia o apartheid em seu país natal
Summary
Este estudo centra-se na maneira pela qual o escritor sul-africano, J. A idade do ferro a ser uma vítima da desmedida (Hybris) perpassa as diferentes sessões do poema a tal ponto que, como nota Vernant, a tensão entre Dike e Hybris não só norteia a estrutura do mito como lhe atribui seu significado geral.
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