Entre a tradição e a pós-modernidade: o percurso metaficcional em Livro, de José Luís Peixoto

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Maia, Milena Figueirêdo
• Orientador(a): Navas, Diana
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Literatura e Crítica Literária
• Departamento: Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Letras e Artes
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Literatura portuguesa contemporânea; Peixoto, Jose Luis [1974-]; Tradição
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Contemporary Portuguese literature; Tradition; Postmodernity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::TEORIA LITERARIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19504

This thesis has as its first proposal evaluating the path of Peixoto’s narrator in search of self-knowledge and showing how this path culminates in the search of the narrative for its self-gnosis, in addition to presenting how Peixoto conciliates tradition and postmodernity in Livro. At first, the Portuguese literature scenery was presented, from the end of the twentieth century until the present time, outlining the fictional mechanisms that bring important authors from this period closer. Subsequently, it is shown how elements from tradition and postmodernity dialogue in the aforementioned novel. Lastly, we analyzed the self-gnostic path of the narrator and novel itself. The narrator’s search for knowledge is undertaken initially at a thematic scope, however, through the analysis of this narrator it is possible to notice that his search goes beyond the thematic level and the metalinguistic weight, already in evidence through its name, Livro, and it reaches the structural plan of the novel. Bearing in mind this important aspect of the novel, this research is willing to reveal the metafictional process of constitution of this narrative, relying on the concepts of Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh e Gustavo Bernardo, on metafiction. Furthermore, this thesis also means to demonstrate how the search for this wandering narrator, this problematic hero (concepts, respectively, suggested by Álvaro Cardoso Gomes e Georg Lukács) – shattered, ripped – culminates in a novel also fragmented and, therefore, reflecting the attempt of rescue of an apparently lost totality