The Image of the Stranger in the Work of Samuel Rawet

Abstract

Based on the analysis of Samuel Rawet's novel Viagens de Ahasverus à terra alheia em busca de um passado que não existe porque é futuro e de um futuro que já passou porque sonhado, published in 1970, this communication will address the way in which the writer – in the words of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who coined the expression “minor literature” – represents, in their writings, the hegemonic population. In other words, how the minority is represented in Rawet's work. In this way, I try to understand the radicality of the estrangement experienced by minority groups, in their literary expression.