Devouring Hometowns: James Joyce’s Dublin and Dalton Trevisan’s Curitiba

The issue of geographical escape permeates the texts Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce and Em busca de Curitiba perdida (1992) Dalton Trevisan. In both works we come across characters who try to run away from a reality marked frustration, decadence paralysis. impossibility being able leave physical space city invariably leads them sublimate this need through other types evasion, such as dream or daydream; idealization exotic distant places; temporal flight – valuing past at expense present time; vices mostly, drinking; superficial fleeting relationships and, in extreme, death ultimate solution hardships which they are victims. Thus, Joyce’s Dublin Trevisan’s not idealized, much less understood places protection warmth characteristics generally associated with idea hometown. fictional context presented, these cities function only settings, but large stifling persona that imprisons its inhabitants inexorably outlines their destinies.