O personagem-escritor e a ficção como crítica

Abstract

According to Patricia Waugh (1984, p 6), the lowest common denominator of metafiction is simultaneously creating a fiction and make a statement on the creation of thatfiction. These are two processes that hold together a formal tension that tries to eliminate the distinction between creationand criticism. We can say that metafiction has a constant and specific feature: the existence, in the text of a critical review, reflective and conscious of the narrator or a character-writer onthe compositional procedures of the novel itself. Starting from theoretical studies of metafiction (HUTCHEON, 1985;OMMUNDSEN, 1993; WAUGH, 1984), we propose the analysis of the novel Um crime delicado, by Sérgio Sant Anna, published in1997.