João Gilberto Noll and pomosexuality

Abstract

João Gilberto Noll is a Brazilian writer known for composing autodiegetic narrators who are meandering and unstable. Many of them are difficult to grasp sexually, what makes them subjective and moveable. The novel analyzed here, Solidão Continental (2012), is not different concerning the Nollian traditional form, but concerning the relation between this tradition and the renewed scope of content presented in it. The protagonist, João Bastos, as well as some of the deuteragonist characters, has a marked erotic / sexual transience which is difficult to understand. They are fictional beings without a fixed sexual category, i.e., their sexualities are transient (AUGÉ, 1994), disperse (DELEUZE, & GUATTARI, 1995) and fragmentary (BLANCHOT, 1990). This Sexual vagueness has been called pomosexuality by the sexologists Carol Queen & Lawrence Schimel in their book PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (1997). Therefore, this article aims to analyze how the Nollian traditional structure of the narrator is built with the most remarkable pomosexual features indicated by the sexologists Queen &Schimel (1997) through the narrative constructions regarding the narrator by Gérard Genette (1995), focusing mainly on the relationships between the following narrative instances: narrator/protagonist, narrator/ deuteragonist characters and protagonist/deuteragonist characters.