O cruzamento de linguagens e o espaço biográfico na obra de Lourenço Mutarelli

Abstract

This paper analyzes the works by author, cartoonist, playwright and actor Lourenço Mutarelli, focusing especially on the novels O cheiro do ralo, O natimorto, Jesus Kid and the graphic narratives Caixa de Areia, Mundo Pet, Réquiem and Quando meu pai encontrou o e.t. fazia um dia quente. It addresses two perspectives present in the contemporary writing: 1) the hybridity between several languages and 2) the new styles of the writing of self. As for the first perspective, the dialogism between cinema and literature is privileged, taking into account important questions and discussions concerning the extent to which literature, as being an original work, is indeed superior when compared to the seventh art. In order to analyze some key issues arising from the intertextuality between cinema and literature such as originality, hierarchy and fidelity , this study proposes approaches that seek to explain that, when adapting a literary text, the cinema creates a new work, which is a hybrid one. Thus, it presents new perspectives previously contextualized and consequently inserted at the time of the adaptation, i.e., it brings to the literary text a new view: that of resulting from the director's ideas and experiences. As for the second perspective, observed in present-day context, the exposure of intimacy through varied media blogs, internet websites, reality shows, among others has changed the way authors deal with their own works and readers. The writers seem to create a persona, becoming, quite often, the character of their texts and making use of self-fiction, by blending biographical and fictional elements. This new form of writing of self extending beyond traditional diaries, letters and autobiographies rescues the author from the death" announced by Barthes and brings him/her back as an analysis object of the literary text