Heresias da letra sem corpo e do espírito errante uma leitura do romance "As iniciais" , de Bernardo Carvalho

Abstract

This text intends to develop the idea of democratic disturbance of the orphan letter, postulated by Jacques Rancière, going by the conceptions of writing of Homer, Plato and Aristotle. The letter that wanders without a father to protect it leads to the idea of suppression of the belles lettres, establishing the notion of literature, which proclaims its autonomy towards mimesis. Those conceptions will orientate this investigation of Bernardo Carvalho’s text, As iniciais, whose dispersion exhibits reports disentailed of myth, allegory and history.