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- This essay discusses the process of identity construction in two novels of Chico Buarque, the celebrated Brazilian songwriter and popular singer from the 1960s. This is done with the help of Gilles Deleuze’s concept of contracting contemplation, which is also related to semiotic ideas of authors such as Umberto Eco and Julia Kristeva. Buarque’s novels are relatively recent ones, won literary prizes in Brazil, and have been translated worldwide. The first deals with the topic of biography and ghost writing, and the second is a fictional memoir.
- Este ensaio discute o processo de construção da identidade de personagens em dois romances de Chico Buarque, o conhecido compositor e músico popular brasileiro da década de 1960. A discussão vale-se do conceito de contemplação contractante de Gilles Deleuze, relacionado também a teorias semióticas de autores como Umberto Eco e Julia Kristeva. Os romances de Buarque são relativamente recentes e vencedores de prêmios literários no Brasil, tendo sido traduzidos no exterior. O primeiro aborda o tema da escrita fantasma e biográfica e o segundo é um memorial fictício.
Citation
Zir, Alessandro,
"A strategy for writing: contracting contemplation in ‘Budapeste’ and ‘Leite derramado’"
(2017).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/7t9x-kw51
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …