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João Luís Nabo - Index of - Universidade de Évora

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killer” 551 , funcionando cada uma <strong>de</strong>las como máscara da outra. Como constata Cynthia Hamilton, em<br />

“American Genre Fiction”, Bateman é sempre julgado pela sua aparência e não pelo seu carácter. Por<br />

esse motivo, Bateman “literally embodies the terrifying closeness <strong>of</strong> the ordinary and the perverse.” 552<br />

5.2.2.1. Bateman Serial Killer<br />

Bateman revela, <strong>de</strong>s<strong>de</strong> o início, traços nítidos <strong>de</strong> uma enorme ambivalência. Dividido em duas<br />

personalida<strong>de</strong>s, o serial killer e o stockbroker / yuppie, o impulso pelo exercício da morte pela morte<br />

vai conduzi-lo a um completo <strong>de</strong>sequilíbrio emocional. Este estado psicológico vai dar origem a<br />

comportamentos que, pela sua aparente falta <strong>de</strong> lógica e pela sua crueza, provocam no leitor<br />

sentimentos ambivalentes <strong>de</strong> atracção e repulsa. As <strong>de</strong>scrições que Bateman faz dos crimes,<br />

alegadamente executados por si quando a sua monstruosida<strong>de</strong> se <strong>de</strong>soculta, “by means <strong>of</strong> a drug à la<br />

Jekyll and Hy<strong>de</strong>” 553 , são fáceis <strong>de</strong> reter na memória, sobretudo pelas sevícias às vítimas sexuais do<br />

auto-intitulado psicopata, <strong>de</strong> entre as quais se <strong>de</strong>staca esta, repleta <strong>de</strong> pormenor e violência:<br />

I’m not mourning, and to prove it to myself, after a minute or two <strong>of</strong> watching the rat move<br />

un<strong>de</strong>r her lower belly, making sure the girl is still conscious, shaking her head in pain, her<br />

eyes wi<strong>de</strong> with terror and confusion, I use a chain saw and in a matter <strong>of</strong> seconds cut the girl<br />

in two with it. The whirring teeth go through skin and muscle and sinew and bone so fast<br />

that she stays alive long enough to watch me pull her legs away from her body – her actual<br />

thighs, what’s left <strong>of</strong> her mutilated vagina – and hold them up in front <strong>of</strong> me, spouting blood,<br />

like trophies almost. 554<br />

Jamie Clark, no <strong>de</strong>correr <strong>de</strong> uma entrevista ao escritor, referiu que po<strong>de</strong>ria levar a uma<br />

interpretação errada o facto <strong>de</strong> Ellis, em American Psycho, lançar a i<strong>de</strong>ia <strong>de</strong> que um corrector da Bolsa<br />

podia ter uma natural inclinação para ser um assassino em série 555 . Bret Easton Ellis justificou <strong>de</strong>sta<br />

forma: “I un<strong>de</strong>rstood that my narrator would be a serial killer. (…) It just seemed logical that one <strong>of</strong><br />

these guys would be driven so nuts by how status obsessed everyone is, that it would incite him into<br />

becoming a mur<strong>de</strong>rer. It just was a logical connection to me as a writer.” 556 É clara a analogia ao<br />

551 Ibi<strong>de</strong>m.<br />

552 Cynthia Hamilton, “American Genre Fiction”. In Mo<strong>de</strong>rn American Culture: an Introduction, p. 316.<br />

553 Ralph Tymms, Doubles in Literay Psychology, p. 109.<br />

554 Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, p. 329.<br />

555 Jamie Clark, acedido a 20/01/06, em: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8506/Ellis/clarkeint3.html.<br />

556 Bret Easton Ellis, entrevista <strong>de</strong> Jaime Clark, acedido em 24/04/07, em:<br />

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8506/Ellis/clarkeint2.html.<br />

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