José, autor de Rubem Fonseca: os processos de subjetivação através da escrita e da memória

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to present a reading of Rubem Fonseca’s body of works starting from the analysis of the character José, who has his origins narrated in the short story “A material do sonho”, in the book Lúcia McCartney (1967). We tried to demonstrate that Rubem Fonseca is the designer of a “literary project” whose objective is the apprehension of the human essence. In this perspective, each of Fonseca’s books, especially his short stories anthologies, composes a subproject that explores the component elements of this human essence. As it was intended to demonstrate, the tackling of each of these elements leads to successive processes of subjectivation. Therefore, these processes can be metonymically apprehended through the trajectory of José, who primarily is configured as a sign but afterwards becomes a figurative sign of the “little creatures” that dwell in Fonseca’s fiction and has their ultimate movement in the identification with the author himself throughout the book named José which narrates part of his life. The theoretical reference of this academic research involves consecrated essays about Fonseca’s body of works such as those written by Vera Follain’s (2003), nevertheless it is based mainly upon the conceptions of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben (2009).