Que sei eu de mim?: escrita e (de)formação de subjetividades na ficção de Beatriz Bracher

Abstract

The present dissertation had as aim to analyze Beatriz Bracher’s fictional work, having as point of departure the hypothesis that the author elaborates an essay throughout her narratives, in which the subjective experience with writing unfolds. In the first chapter, the corpus analysis was developed along with a bibliographic review on the theory regarding essayism, in which we were able to state that Bracher’s fiction resonates the essay in terms of its form, as well as its share of critical reflection and the influence of subjective experience to thinking development. As regards the latter, a discussion about the metafictional and autofictional features of contemporary literature was established, which were compared to the ways Bracher’s fiction presents itself in this scenario: as an author focused on exploring the lived process and on operating what was named as “the writer’s fugue”, a procedure that stands apart from line of contemporary fictional production, more autobiographical. In the second chapter, guided by the concept of a loss both in the authority of experience as in the ability to narrate — according to Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, Georges Didi-Huberman and Giorgio Agamben —, we investigated how these phenomena are explored throughout Bracher’s fictional works, in an intertwining between these losses and their influence in writing and in the formation of subjectivities. In the last chapter, following the evidence that Bracher reflects on writing as form of body marking and territory occupation, a thorough examination was conducted on the author’s fictional texts, aimed at mapping them from this perspective, and having as its main theoretical support Félix Guattari & Gilles Deleuze’s concept of writing, as developed in Anti-Oedipus. As conclusion, besides a review on the most relevant results obtained through research, a brief analysis was outlined, regarding Bracher’s most recently published novel, War I, the first volume of a trilogy about the Paraguay War.