Um escrever-ler em continuum: políticas de afeto no (des)lembrar de Ondjaki

Abstract

O livro do deslembramento (2020), Ondjaki’s last novel, marks the twenty-year career of the Angolan writer. Different from what the word “deslembrar” can evoke in a reader unfamiliar with Ondjaki’s production, the novel establishes an intense intertextual dialogue from the resumption of childhood, present in several of the writer’s publications, in poems, in short stories, in novels. previous. This article, therefore, reflects on the Ondjaki’s production as a writing-reading continuum, having the “antigamente” of childhood as a time/place of strong reference. Therefore, the approach proposes that, despite resorting to the autobiographical “pact” or the autofictional “contract”, the dialogue within the writer’s fictional universe goes beyond such theoretical readings. The writing-reading in continuum will be understood in this article as a process of adaptation, in which writing is also a re-reading of the work itself, in addition to dialogue with other Angolan writers. In this sense, the constant revisiting of childhood, establishing an extensive web between O Livro do Deslembramento (2020) and other titles by Ondjaki, such as Bom dia camaradas (2001), Os da minha rua (2007), AvoDezanove e o secreto do soviético (2007), 2008), A bicicleta que tinha bigodes (2011), Uma escuridão bonita (2013), would configure the construction of a literary project in which (dis)remembering is a crucial way for an aesthetic option for the politics of affection.