Lucian reader of Derrida

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Rafael Guimarães Tavares da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Classica (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/961
• topic: Lucian of Samosata; Jacques Derrida; poetics; writing; classical studies; literary theory.; Luciano de Samósata; Jacques Derrida; poética; escritura; estudos clássicos; teoria da literatura.

The present text traces parallels between the lives, works and receptions of Jacques Derrida and Lucian of Samosata. Basing my theoretical perspective on both literary theory (specially comparative literature) and classical studies, I suggest an approximation between the writing projects outlined by these two authors, highlighting in both of them: a deep respect for tradition in their readings, including their care for the singularity of the works; the same intention of returning to classical texts, in order to remove the patina of time; a common desire for displacement and estrangement from the structures established by convention; the same freedom in using different genres and modalities of discourse in their writings; as well as the discomfort that such characteristics inspire in the most conservative part of their critical fortune. In conclusion, I defend the ethical dimension of the writing projects of these two authors, proposing that some fundamental aspects of the Derridean deconstruction have been taken up and reworked, avant la lettre, in an extremely creative way by Lucian.