Aventuras do personagem-leitor em metaficções de Cervantes, Borges e Calvino (e o que encontrou lá)

Abstract

The reader-character is this thesis starting point. He is the pillar that makes clear the construction of a metaliterature that seeks to understand through the concept of literary narcissism (HUTCHEON, 1984) focused on the reception s process; it is the reader s key to the interstitial world that manifests itself between fiction and reality (PIGLIA, 2006, p. 26), and between fiction and critical and theoretical reflections, being an in-between space (BHABHA, 1998). This figure is determinant for the selection of the study s central corpus: productions that, also discussing the figure and the role of readers-characters conscious of the act of reading, look for representations of the art of reading and the reader of literature. They are: Don quijote de la Mancha (1605/2009), by Cervantes, the tales Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote , Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain and El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan , in Ficciones (1944/1984m), by Borges, and Se una notte d inverno un viaggiatore (1979/2002), by Calvino; texts that, because of the critical and theoretical discourse that develop, reveal themselves as tangible manifestations of reception and as expressions of an essayism that resulting from self-centering. We aim to understand and discuss the mechanisms of articulation and operation of these simulacrum networks in which the reader is inserted and to reflect about the sense effect produced from the adopted procedures, prevailing the observation of the text as a space of presentification of the metatechnique (BAUDRILLARD, 1991) related to the reception. In this context, each of these works is a materialization of the reading of authors-readers-characters of fiction who are great connoisseurs of fiction and who, consciously, practice the so-called authorial reception, placing it in prominence and employing it as a strategy to reach an infinite book, an eternal reading and, therefore, also a kind of infinite library. It is worth highlighting the discussion about the terms developed: invisible centers (intra and/or extratextual points of intersection that freely establish themselves, and may or may not become known), reader-author (more than coauthor; with his creative force, he goes beyond the limits of the implied reader and the model reader), authorial reception (performed by the author-reader in his creative activity), militant-reader (specific type of author-reader who employs authorial reception in favor of a cause) and eternal-reader (spectrum whose appearance is established next to that of the infinite book and library). These aesthetic elements are also examined as producers of simulacra (BAUDRILLARD, 1991) that have plasticity and manifest themselves in crossroads (PUCHEU, 2004), multiverse (HAWKING; HERTOG, 2018) and spectrum (DERRIDA, 1994); therefore, we also study: crossroads-text, multiverse-text and spectral-text ideas that are proposed in this research. We therefore understand that works such as these investigated ones make, through the metatechnique, the reader aware not only of the read text and its artifice (BARTHES, 2007), but also of himself and his reading practice, projecting to the reader a mirror in which he meets and recognizes himself, and also aiming new forms of understanding and interpreting the literary productions reception, as the authorial reception s aesthetics