For an anatomy of the literary gesture: self-design and critical exercise in Laura Erber

• Autor(a) principal: de Góis, Edma
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/estudos/article/view/25945
• topic: design de si; forma; leitor; diseño de si; forma; lector; self-design; form; reader

“Is it so dangerous to speak of what unleashes?”, asks Laura Erber in the text (poem?) “A retornada”, which closes the eponymous book released by Reliquary Editions in 2017. Erber’s writing, which seems to combine biographical details and elements that tend towards autofictional speculation, is organized around a binomial: the questioning of an author's presence that refers to the construction of self and to the form and the critical exercise undertaken by the whole work. In the first place, the comfort of the presence of a lyrical self, which would indicate a certain appropriateness to the form, comes before the author's confessed feeling about the classificatory imprecision of the whole book. Extracting gender labels from Laura Erber’s text, and to some extent relativizing the notion of literary autonomy, we are interested in exploring the construction of a self-design (Groys, 2016) and the author's critical exercise (Laddaga, 2013) both linked to form, in which several textual indexes seek to guide its reception, despite imploding its readers’ horizon of expectations (Jauss, 1994).