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A Meek One
Dialogue on the threshold and diatribe: construction mechanisms of the individual 's self-consciousness / Diálogo no limiar e diatribe: mecanismos de construção da autoconsciência do sujeito

Aurora Gedra Ruiz Alvarez*
Lílian Lopondo**

ABSTRACT
This paper is about the dialogue on the threshold whose origins are in the Socratic dialogue and the diatribe (a dialogued internal gender), both understood as privileged mechanisms in the construction of the main character of Dostoevski´s novel Uma criatura dócil [The Meek One]. Its aim is to discuss the materiality of the text – mainly the dialogue on the threshold when the main character is in its existential crisis – and the mechanism of the diatribe which provoke the philosophical dialogue experience that the individual assumes while constituting his voice.
KEYWORDS: Dialogue on the threshold; Socratic dialogue; Diatribe; Selfconsciousness

RESUMO
Este artigo tem o objetivo de refletir sobre o diálogo no limiar, um gênero nascido do diálogo socrático, e a diatribe, um gênero retórico interno dialogado, compreendidos ambos os fenômenos, neste estudo, como instrumentos privilegiados para a construção da autoconsciência do protagonista de Uma criatura dócil, novela de Dostoiévski.
Tencionamos examinar, na materialidade do texto, o partejar das ideias desenvolvido pelo diálogo no limiar no momento da crise existencial vivida pela personagemnarrador e os expedientes da diatribe que provocam a experimentação filosóficodialógica que esse sujeito assume ao constituir a sua voz.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Diálogo no limiar; Diálogo socrático; Diatribe; Autoconsciência

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Professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie – UPM, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; auroragedra@hotmail.com **
Professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie – UPM e da Universidade de São Paulo – USP, São
Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; lopondo@uol.com.br
Bakhtiniana, São Paulo, 7 (2): 5-18, Jul./Dec. 2012.

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References: ARISTOTLE. Poetics. Translated & with a commentary by George Whalley. Québec: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997. Translation and notes by Vadim Liapunov. Texas: The University of Texas Press, 1990, p.4-256. BOURDIEU, P. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Paris: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Introduction and notes by Deborah A. Martinsen; translated by Constance Garnett. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. _______. Uma criatura dócil. Trad. Fátima Bianchi. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2009. Bakhtiniana, São Paulo, 7 (2): 5-18, Jul./Dec. 2012.

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