Tríptico Noll: a experiência, a suspensão e o presente

Abstract

Taking as a starting point the work of the southern writer João Gilberto Noll (1946-2017), and the premise that the Text is a open field for investigation (BARTHES, 2004), this paper proposes a triptych reading – experience, suspension and present –, in order to participate in Noll's language game, experiencing it's rhythms and risks. "Why read a narrative in which nothing happens?" motivates my writing about the experience in Noll's narrative, closely linked to the logic of passion, according to Bondía (2002). The reading of suspensions or weavings present in Noll's writing and narrative, show the text as an assembly, a performance in which comings and goings in time and new configurations in space composes the same scene. By suspending, Noll show us an intimate way his characters perceive and assembles the real (ROSSET, 2008) in an attention and distraction, composition and fragmentation continuum (CRARY, 2004). The presence (GUMBRECHT, 2010) reveals the tensions between what the text communicates in terms of production of meaning, and how it touches, snatches, and makes its reader fall in love. Throughout the paper, short personal stories - a tale, a mosaic of events, a suspension diary and a choreography - that stablishes a dialog with the narratives presented (theoretical and fictional). The personal stories express a desire for answers, of homage, a dance in conjunction, in the game of literature's language. What I propose, then, is to create interlocutions, meeting points that highlights what drives me to write about Noll's work and also writing with him; what happens when I read; what, in his work, captures me; what lies within his presence. The closing chapter, Learnings, presents personals impressions about teaching and the literature teaching I earn for.