The world has stopped shaking: affinity between writing and illness in the book Ana Amsterdan

• Grant number: 18/05469-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: July 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Other Vernacular Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Leonardo Garcia Santos Gandolfi
• Grantee: Maíra Ribeiro Maximiano dos Santos
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The diary Ana de Amsterdam (2015) gathers fragments of the personal blog of the Portuguese author Ana Cássia Rebelo. This project relates narrative and illness, analysing, through the metalinguistic discourse present in the text, the stages of disease, in particular, of melancholy. In this project, it will be articulated topics such as protocols of reading, autofiction, statutes of the narrator and the women in literature. One of the hypotheses of reading is that, in the book, writing would act as a therapeutic gesture and simultaneously as an inscription of the disease.