Na sala de espelhos a questão da identidade autoral a partir da figura do duplo em Budapeste e Vom Dorf

Abstract

The issue of authorship has gained a new look nowadays. We can no longer recognize the power and influence that the author once had on their artistic productions, as its identity merges with the "real person". This question of authorial identity is discussed and analyzed through the figure of the double. The theme of the double, so dear to the history of literature is then used as a deconstructive element of the figure of the author. This will no longer be one that carries a lot of expectations and judgments with respect to all of their productions, giving place to another - the double - strange to the reader. Thus, it is the question of what is left when the signature of the author is emptied, how many are the voices that will pave the way to discourse and narrative that will characterize the figure of the contemporary author. These are the issues that prompted the writing of this dissertation. This work will examine the question of authorship and identity from the figure of the double in two contemporary novels, namely: Budapeste by Chico Buarque de Hollanda and Vom Dorf by Antje Rávic Strubel. The choice of a Brazilian novel and other German states explicitly that the issue of authorship is a topical issue which is expressed in different literary contexts, such as Germany and Brazil. The issue is both complex and developments in new forms of communication and is directly related to the globalization process. We will make a cross-sectional addressing the developmental history of the double in literature, its origins, the novels which reveal their different expressions. Then we enter the quagmire of problems of identity always focusing on the diachronic view of the matter and finally introduce the historical figure of the author and its implications for literary criticism. At another time we will check how these elements are expressed in the novels in question