Letter and resurrection: The written body of “Ana Lívia Plurabella”, by James Joyce

• Autor(a) principal: Samudio, Jonas Miguel Pires
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2017v15n48p1525
• topic: Ressurection; Letter; Literature; James Joyce; Religious Studies; literature; Ressurreição; Letra; Literatura; James Joyce.; Ciências da Religião; Literatura

The present essay aims at reading the eighth chapter of Finnegans Wake (2004; 2009), known as “Anna Livia Plurabelle”, by the Irish writer James Joyce. We intend to collate the notions of “letter” and “resurrection”, not in a thematic analysis, but in a reading that highlights the text’s immanence, the textual surface. In order to achieve our goal we make use of theoretical apparatus from literary theory (AMARANTE, 2009; BLANCHOT, 2011, 2005; BRANCO, 2011, 2000; LAERE, 1969; MANDIL, 2003; SCHÜLER, 2004), from theology (AQUINO, 2002; BALTHASAR, 1971), from psychoanalysis (LACAN, 2007, 2009, 2008) and from philosophy (NANCY, 2001, 2006).  Thereby, we seek to understand how the readability of James Joyce’s text invite us to a reading that focuses on the materiality of the “letter”, such as it is written: in a discontinuous movement, by which the text is written as a body in continuity ­– the text is recognizable as made out of letters – disrupting – the meaning is not built for plot decoding and interpretation– which evanesces itself; we named this movement “resurrection”.