O anti-herói rebelde e a sociedade de controle em O concorrente (1982), de Stephen King escrevendo como Richard Bachman

Abstract

This article presents a study of the dystopian novelistic antihero, carried out through the analysis of the novel The Running Man (1982), by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. In this text, I examine the elements that characterize the work as dystopia and the role played by the anti-hero protagonist of the narrative, revealing how he relates to the permanence of the Prometheus myth and the postmodern condition of contemporary society. For this, I use Fredric Jameson's studies on Postmodernity as a theoretical framework, in which he analyzes the "death" of the subject itself, the myth of Prometheus narrated by Hesiod in Theogony (VIII BCE) and The Works and Days (VIII BCE), the studies on disciplinary society, by Michel Foucault, and societies of control, by Gilles Deleuze, and the research on antiheroes by Rita Gurung, who categorizes the rebel antihero in The archetypal antihero in postmodern fiction (2010).