Milton Hatoum no parlatório: entre crônicas e paratextos digitais

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the position of Brazilian writer Milton Hatoum in the literary field focusing his production as a chronicler. We propose the idea of the “parlatory” as a way of entering this type of writing in the work of the amazonense and for this we study a corpus of 56 chronicles published in Terra Magazine, from 2006 to 2010. We add to the study some posts by the author in his networks. Additionally, we elaborate a reflection on the problem of the chronicle in Brazil, in order to think about the relations between this literary species and the advent of the press, since the chronicle is a hybrid genre and its trajectory is confused with the history of the newspaper. Thus, it was necessary to revisit some definitions of the species, as well as questions from the field of Literary Theory (COUTINHO, 2003; MASSAUD, 1968; CANDIDO, 1992) about the limits and impasses in the conceptualization of the chronicle. In our study, the term “chronicle” by Milton Hatoum aims to highlight the unique style marks that form an author's poetics, from whose corpus mentioned we removed 12 chronicles, classified into three categories: Autobiographical, Metanarrative and Metaideological (CEIA, 2009). The image of the writer in the parlatory, from the comparative reading between Machado de Assis and Milton Hatoum, leads us to affirm that since the work of the “Bruxo” the image of “cabinet writers” has been problematized. The parlatory is seen as a place where the writer seeks controversy as he denounces the social problems of the country and the world, whether in digital environments, in print or in social networks. Finally, we will argue that there is a “noisy conversation” between writer and audience in the parliaments, as we will see in the studies on paratext (GENETTE, 2010), focusing on digital networks in which Hatoum participates.