Bolero: Uma estética do espetáculo

This article analyses Bolero, Victor Giudice’s first novel. Its aim is to show how thisBrazilian author, who has also been critic of music and literature, develops along hisfiction a poetics of his own, which consists of his ideas about art in general andliterature in particular. Its fragmented structure tells a lot about what can be said tobe the author’s conception towards the critical function of art. In this way, the novelis a perfect fulfillment of its author’s project of developing a critical perspective inrelation to an anti-democratical society through an artistic language. In order todemonstrate the presence of this poetics in this novel I’ll analyse some fragments inwhich Giudice refers to music, poetry, pantomime, drama, painting, cinema e evento carnival as a way of implementing his social critics through a language that isessentially artistical