<em>Manual de pintura e caligrafia</em> and <em>Bufo & Spallanzani</em>: figurations of the author and the writing literary in the atlantic interlocutions

Authors

  • Edvaldo Aparecido Bergamo Universidade de Brasília
  • Letícia Braz da Silva

Keywords:

Contemporary novel, literary self-questioning, José Saramago, Rubem Fonseca.

Abstract

José Saramago and Rubem Fonseca, through the aesthetic and ideological self-reflection expressed in novelistic form, problematize the artistic practice and the method of figuring the reality in the historical context of the cultural industry rise in Brazil and Portugal, in the late twentieth century. Thus, this article makes a comparative reading of books Manual de pintura e caligrafia (1977), by José Saramago, and Bufo & Spallanzani (1985), by Rubem Fonseca, supported by the theoretical discussion of literary self-questioning. It is a narrative procedure regards the critical representation of the author and writing act, noting in the works coexistence of real and fictional subjects that discuss the role of art and the artist in contemporary society.

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Author Biography

Edvaldo Aparecido Bergamo, Universidade de Brasília

Professor de literatura portuguesa e literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa do Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas do Instituto de Letras da Universidade de Brasília.

Published

2017-01-13

How to Cite

Bergamo, E. A., & Silva, L. B. da. (2017). <em>Manual de pintura e caligrafia</em> and <em>Bufo & Spallanzani</em>: figurations of the author and the writing literary in the atlantic interlocutions. Raído, 10(22), 127–151. Retrieved from https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/Raido/article/view/4982

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LITERATURE AND CULTURAL PRACTICES