Entre a visibilidade e o sumiço : autor e autoria em Se um viajante numa noite de inverno, de Italo Calvino

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, João Paulo Tozetti da
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3278
• topic: Author; Authorship; Autor; Autoria; Italo Calvino; Letras; Calvino, Italo, 1923-1985 - Crítica e interpretação; Autoria; Literatura italiana; Literatura italiana - História e crítica; 82

In the late 1960s, some scholars as Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes contributed to modify the action of the French literary criticism, still very attached to biographical perspectives. Though with different proposals, these researchers are considered some of the main responsible for resizing the role of the author in literature and literary interpretation. A decade later, Italo Calvino publishes the novel If on a Winter's Night a traveler, in which, amid the fiction, he presents and discusses various topics of literary theories in vogue, especially the thesis of the author's death advocated by Barthes. The work of the Italian writer is considered by many critics as sectarian of the French semiotician’s ideas, but this premise is not unanimous. The novel criticizes the conception overestimated of the author, but at the same time, distrusts the theoretical proposal that seeks to eliminate it. The objective of this dissertation is to discuss the notion of author and the question of authorship through this work of Italo Calvino. The research had as its focus two distinct but interrelated points: to show the controversy about the author’s figure – its relevance or irrelevance to the interpretation, its absence or presence in the text – essentially discussing the notion of intention and the death proposed by Barthes, and to relate this criticism, which belittled the author’s importance, with Calvino’s theoretical thinking to, thereby, determine how the dispute involving the author’s figure is discussed in the novel. As a guide, we use the Roland Barthes’s and Michael Foucault’s thoughts, as well as considerations that Calvino himself exposed in many of his essays.