Abstract
Neste artigo, disserta-se sobre a metaficção associada à “exaustão de literatura”, ou seja, ao esgotamento da criatividade literária, como John Barth (1930-) havia declarado num ensaio de 1967. A partir de Lost in the Funhouse (1968) deste autor, e de Ficciones (1944) de Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), autor do qual John Barth é leitor, estabelecemos uma leitura comparativa sobre os três motivos recorrentes da metaficção (o espelho, o labirinto e o círculo) e analisamos criticamente os meios que o discurso literário utiliza para se recriar e subverter (título, pontuação, personagem, narrador), numa tentativa de reverter essa “exaustão da literatura”.
In this article I analyse how metafiction is linked to “The Literature of Exhaustion”, that is, the exhaustion of all creative ways and possibilities in literary art, as John Barth explained in a 1967 essay. From Lost in the Funhouse (1968), by this author, and Ficciones (1944), by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), I use a comparative methodology to examine the three tropes of metafiction (mirror, labyrinth and circle) and study how literary discourse works its way out of that “exhaustion”, through subversion and recreation.
In this article I analyse how metafiction is linked to “The Literature of Exhaustion”, that is, the exhaustion of all creative ways and possibilities in literary art, as John Barth explained in a 1967 essay. From Lost in the Funhouse (1968), by this author, and Ficciones (1944), by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), I use a comparative methodology to examine the three tropes of metafiction (mirror, labyrinth and circle) and study how literary discourse works its way out of that “exhaustion”, through subversion and recreation.
| Translated title of the contribution | The game of mirrors between John Barth and Jorge Luis Borges |
|---|---|
| Original language | Portuguese |
| Title of host publication | Angry Young Postmodernism |
| Subtitle of host publication | Ensaios do Seminário de Inglês sobre o Pós-modernismo na Literatura e na Cultura Anglo-Americanas |
| Editors | Carlos Ceia |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Chapter | Parte II |
| Pages | 322-335 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Edition | 3ª |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781792890765 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Obras Completas de Carlos Ceia |
|---|---|
| Number | (Book 16) |
Keywords
- Post-modernism
- English and North-American Literature
- English Studies
- Latin-American literature
- Contemporary Literature
- Metafiction
- Jorge Luis Borges
- John Barth
- Short stories
- Literature exhaustion
- Mirror
- Labyrinth
- Circle