Fiction camillian: writing on the scene

Author(s)

Moizeis Sobreira de Sousa

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-02-11

Examining board members

Paulo Fernando da Motta de Oliveira; Maria Lúcia Dias Mendes; Sérgio Paulo Guimarães de Sousa

• Advisor: Paulo Fernando da Motta de Oliveira

Abstract

The reception to the camilian fiction is basically due to two hermeneutic operators consecrated by a significant part of the literary Luso-Brazilian critics: the conjunction life/work and the literary production frame signed by Camilo in the Portuguese Romanticism. The observation of Amor de Perdição (1862) and Onde Está a Felicidade? (1856), allows the debate on the analysis of the camilian production that is based on these hermeneutic operators. In this way, we raise some questions: has Camilo assimilated and culminated in the Portuguese literary tradition the religion of love? Is Camilo essencially an extreme-romantic writer, especially a romantic novels author? The answer given to these questions was based on the relation between these texts and the vigorous metafictional literary tradition, strongly rooted in the periods that precede and succeed Camilos performance as a writer. The occurrence of the metafictional expedients in Amor de Perdição and Onde Está a Felicidade? discloses a mimetic representation that unfolds into representing the world, particularly the bourgeois, and the mechanisms that involve this representation, evidencing a literary construction that is not limited to create the suggestion of reality, as well as taking its debate as base. The action of creating becomes a target to questioning, demanding from its participants, nominated narrator/author and reader, new mental positions in which the origin and the destination of its meaning are not completely assumed for the author and the reader, respectively, deriving from this arrangement a text in process, that constructs itself is assumed as mise en scène. (AU)