A Metamorfose de Kafka e A memetamorfose presidencial

o riso na literatura e no meme

Abstract

This research is a comparison between two mirrored incidents separated in time and space. The first is Kafka's Metamorphosis, which produced a Gregor Samsa transformed into a monstrous insect in the plague of 1912. The second event of 2020 is the warning from the president of Brazil, that if vaccinated against the plague of covid, Brazilians could turn into alligators. In this comparative analysis, literature and meme converge and we discuss the realism of one and the fantastic realism of the other. We analyze the short circuit in these two catastrophes from the perspective of humor, its impacts and its capacity for anti-authoritarian transformation.