Fingidores em cena: a metaficção em Sérgio Sant Anna e Rubens Figueiredo

Abstract

This thesis proposes the idea of amplifying the concept of metafiction and aims at investigating the functions of metafictional discourse in the works of two authors in contemporary Brazilian literature: Sérgio Sant Anna and Rubens Figueiredo. Regarding Sérgio Sant Anna, we investigate the relationship between metafiction and the following issues: the control of imagination; the aesthetic reflection explored inside fictional texts; and the debate concerning the avant-garde. As for Rubens Figueiredo, the discussion about the usage of metafictional discourse takes into account the three cycles which the writer s work goes through. These cycles are singled out by the emphasis put upon issues like the following: the parady of detective stories, the problem of identity and last but not least the problem of social issues. The panoramic view of the works of both writers intends to throw light on how the different metafictional usages − as they attribute different values to the relationship that literature establishes with the so-called real world − signpost two almost antagonistic conceptions of the literary phenomenon