THE VAMPIRE'S HABITUS: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DALTON TREVISAN IN THE BRAZILIAN LITERARY FIELD

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the construction of Brazilian writer Dalton Trevisan's habitus within the Brazilian literary field, based on his own life, as well as through interviews and reports with and about him. The main materials selected range from 1968, when the author won an award from the Paraná State Government, to 2015, the short story writer's 90th birthday. The objective was to examine how the Curitiba native constructed his trajectory through the positions he took throughout his life and how these positions were recorded in the press, thus perpetuating a path contrary to the usual trajectory of great names in Brazilian literature. Through authors such as Bourdieu, Sapiró, and Casanova, we present the definition of a social field, symbolic capital, and how Trevisan constitutes herself as a myth of a recluse, despite always being a part of every movement related to it.