Abstract:
This study aims to analyze the novel o apocalipse dos trabalhadores, of the Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Mãe, according with the theory of the philosopher Gaston Bachelar about the “material imagination”. To do this, the analyze will be focused on the character Andriy: Ukrainian, he has a hard life as immigrant in Portugal, working a lot and not getting much from it, in a late capitalism system, far from his family and without friends. Because of this, he decides to become a machine, giving away his own humanity condition: this process of turning himself a metal structure revels subtle meanings when interpreted mainly with the symbolic aspect of the earth element, exanimated by Barchelard in La terre et les rêveries de la volonté.
Keywords:
Valter Hugo Mãe; o apocalipse dos trabalhadores; Gaston Bachelard; Material imagination