Altair Martins

The book of Emma Reyes: A memoir in correspondence (2016), is an epistolary novel in which are gathered twenty three letters written by the visual artist Emma Reyes (1919-2003) and it exposes an attempt to rebuild and present her past in an external record. However, it brings us, besides an intimate narrative, a portrait of a colonized catholic society, distributed in classes. In this sense, her memories are not only a reconnection with her process of subjectivation, but are filled with political criticism which do not spare important questions and observations about the state and the religion. This characteristic makes Reyes' writing as Literature Minor. Her text is a denunciation on the model of society employed by the traditions of a Pastoral Power and of the so-called Total Institutions showing the details of the norms and disciplinary conducts imposed on her during her growth and subjectivation constitution, inside a convent where she lived in suffering during her childhood.

A partir do conceito de unheimliche, de Sigmund Freud, e de algumas proposições de Ricardo Piglia acerca da natureza da ficção – e também tendo por base as ideias sobre o conto de autores como Jorge Luis Borges e Edgar Allan Poe – o presente texto propõe um debate sobre as motivações, a concepção, e o percurso de escrita e revisão do conto enquanto água. Nesse processo de investigação genética de seu próprio texto, Altair Martins discute alguns aspectos fundamentais da narrativa, como as premissas de enredo e estrutura, a escolha e fixação do narrador, e a caracterização do espaço e dos personagens

From the narrative semiotics, this text tries to define the fantastic ways of narrating as “poetics of deviation” of the structural logic of the narrative or of the acting paradigms (of naturalness or supernaturality). It is about verifying the levels of rupture between a discourse within the conventions of the natural and another outside those conventions –of the supernatural line–. The proposed terms are inspired by the concept of “paradigm of reality”, by Lucio Lugnani, and in the narrative and textual semiotics proposed by Sorin Alexandrescu, according to which semantic axes are altered producing textual isotopies in a discursive dialectic between natural and supernatural. This article proposes this application as a deviation at the syntagma or paradigm level, with which the modular effects of naturalness and the various levels of supernaturality are verified up to the absurd discourse applied to Murilo Rubião’s stories.

A partir do conceito de unheimliche, de Sigmund Freud, e de algumas proposicoes de Ricardo Piglia acerca da natureza da ficcao – e tambem tendo por base as ideias sobre o conto de autores como Jorge Luis Borges e Edgar Allan Poe – o presente texto propoe um debate sobre as motivacoes, a concepcao, e o percurso de escrita e revisao do conto enquanto agua. Nesse processo de investigacao genetica de seu proprio texto, Altair Martins discute alguns aspectos fundamentais da narrativa, como as premissas de enredo e estrutura, a escolha e fixacao do narrador, e a caracterizacao do espaco e dos personagens. ******************************************************************** enquanto agua: the real as reading Abstract: Departing from the concept of unheimliche by Sigmund Freud and the ideas of Ricardo Piglia about the nature of fiction - and also having as basis the ideas of authors like Jorge Luis Borges and Edgar Allan Poe about the short story - the present text proposes a discussion of ...

O Folhetim recebe o escritor Altair Martins para uma conversa sobre seu oitavo livro, 'Donos do Inverno', que sai nesta primavera pela Nao Editora. Na obra, o autor aborda uma relacao familiar conturbada repleta de nuances belas e melancolicas.