The House of the Dead

fiction and reality of violence against women

Abstract

The present work analyzes the violence against women that develops in two contexts and therefore has differences in terms of narrative, temporality and culture. It is, respectively, a short story written in the 19th century by the Russian Dostoiévski and a journalistic article published in Brazil in 2018. The main objective is to demonstrate that the macho values that justified violence against women in a society on the margins of the western world, of rural and pre-capitalist characteristics, are still present in the contemporary Brazilian urban space. Furthermore, it should be noted that despite the struggles led by social movements, especially the feminist movement whose achievements materialize in laws and institutions designed to protect women from beatings, rapes, murders, etc, this cycle of violence has not broken and still does part of the daily lives of thousands of women in our country.