Universo em migalhas: biografema em Roland Barthes por Roland Barthes

Abstract

This research investigates the notion of biographeme in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, a work composed of images and textual fragments, articulating this concept with autofictional writing. Although subjectivity manifests in a dispersed and fragmented manner, the study argues that it is possible to recognize traces left by the author’s body—marks that resist time, forgetting, and erasure. The central hypothesis maintains that the biographeme is a remainder: an involuntary, indexical residue that escapes complete signification. To demonstrate this hypothesis, were analyzed textual fragments and photographs that compose the work. The research engages in an interdisciplinary dialogue with psychoanalysis, aesthetics, philosophy, semiotics, and memory studies, proposing a connection between the biographeme and photography, given their shared indexical nature. Finally, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is understood as a kaleidoscopic montage that dismantles the linearity of autobiographical narrative and reinscribes the subject through remnants—visual and textual flashes—that emerge as persistent traces, revealing the biographeme’s power of survival.