O tempo cronológico e o tempo metamórfico em Moho, de Paulete Jonguitud Acosta

Abstract

Moho, a novel by Mexican writer Paulete Jonguitud Acosta, published in 2010, portrays the unusual experience of Constanza, a middle-aged woman belonging to an upper-middle class family, on the eve of her daughter’s wedding and still beaten down by the recent separation, who discovers a strange stain on the thigh reaching enormous proportions. The study seeks to understand how temporality is elaborated in the book, which works not only as a marking of action. Through its thematization, it is possible to infer a reading that evidences two temporalities at stake. Chronological time, the matrix of modern life, and the "metamorphic time" that rebels against the first and shapes the protagonist's new identity. Against the interferences of chronological time, Constanza's human-plant life rebels and the entire basis of what her life was until then. In this way, the bourgeois nuclear family, the privileged structure of the modern social structure, is also imploded in the unveiling of betrayals and deep displacements. For the development of this research, we resorted to the reflections of scholars of modernity, such as Marshall Berman, in order to describe the meaning of chronological time in the new social configuration, and, for the understanding of metamorphic time, the reflections of the Italian researcher Emanuelle Coccia, in Metamorphoses (2020), in addition to the concepts of becoming and rhizome, by Deleuze and Guattari, were essential. Rafael Mófreita Sadanha's thesis was of particular relevance to the explanation of the "presentist ethos".