“Há um autor neste romance?” - A voz, a ação e os apelos do autor metaficcional
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2014-07-01
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Following a general trend of the human sciences, the arrival of post-modernity in literary
studies has culminated in the so-called “death of the author”. With resonances that can be
noted in some theorists as Roland Barthes (2004), Michel Foucault (2006, 1996), Umberto
Eco (2005, 2003, 2004, 2001, 1986), Stanley Fish (2003, 1990) and Linda Hutcheon (2000;
1991; 1984), the post-modern distrust in meaning and the conviction that what a literary work
means not only does not depend on the author but also finds in him an obstacle to the reader’s
creativity are widely disseminated notions that have found their place in the metafiction
theory by means of Hutcheon (1991; 1984), and Patrícia Waugh (1984). However, in this
thesis, based on the assumptions of the hermeneutic realism theory, an interpretive approach
according to which the meaning of a text is prior to its reading and is in many respects does
not dependent on it, I propose to review the role of the author in metafictional novels,
searching for appropriate readings for such novels. My theory is that author and writer are
separate entities and that, among the four sources of enunciation of a novel (writer, author,
narrator and character), the author is the one responsible for opening the work, activating the
reading and actualizing the metafictionality. By means of a dialogue with theorists from
several fields of the human sciences, I seek to defend the author from his opponents and show
that, in the relationships he establishes with the character in novels of protagonist writer (as in
A Rainha dos cárceres da Grécia, Bufo & Spallanzani and O Chalaça), the metafictional
author addresses us, making communicative calls to us, and calling our attention to the
fictionality of the text. So, what I do in this thesis is to show that since the attacks to the
notions of person, intention and interpretive authoritarianism may even relate to the writer ,
but never to the author, he cannot and should not be killed. The author, I seek to prove, is a
constitutive element of fictional language and is also the other with whom we communicate in
reading metafictional novels. The result is that our interaction with such aesthetic person is
essential in order that, through the distinction of the voices of the writer, narrator and
character, we may be able to read these novels without making problematic interpretations.
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GOMES, Antônio Egno do Carmo. “Há um autor neste romance?” - A voz, a ação e os apelos do autor metaficcional. 2014. 310 f. Tese (Doutorado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2014.