Caderno de um ausente, de João Anzanello Carrascoza: a escrita autorreflexiva

Abstract

This study aims to investigate how Caderno de un ausente (2014), written by João Anzanello Carrascoza, through a careful work with and in the language, reveals a self-reflexive narrative, in which the empirical author gives way for a fictional author/ narrator, whose purpose is to show, through fiction, the process of literary creation. In the attempt to emphasize Carrascoza's self-referentiality, the study also brings to the scene, Menina escrevendo com o pai (2017), demonstrating the dialogue between the two narratives, as well as the process of literary (des)construction through fragmented narratives in which word and silence become linguistic signs to (dis)veil absences. This research, bibliographic and exploratory-descriptive, considers the hypothesis that the writing in process developed by the author reveals a constant search for the resignification of life, through language, in the attempt of a reconciliation of the individual with himself and with the other, in demand of a hypothetical lost totality of the human being in contemporaneity. The research is organized in three chapters: in the first, we present a panorama of Carrascoza's work aiming to demonstrate the marks of his writing; in the second, we analyze the novel Caderno de um ausente, evidencing his poetic, metalinguistic and metafictional writing, based on the concepts of Jakobson, Paz, Barthes and Hutcheon; in the third, we propose the dialogue between the corpus and Menina escrevendo com o pai, evidencing the staging of the writing and the process of self-reflexivity that is observed between them, as well as the discussion of the effect of meaning generated by this writing that is revealed, in constant state of process, based on the considerations of Hutcheon and Bauman