Na floresta escura da escritura: Gonçalo M. Tavares e Roland Barthes

Abstract

The literature of Gonçalo M. Tavares (1970-) constantly invokes a reinvention of language, which implies an affirmation of style and a tension between a shared language and a particular language, a language “from the forest”, which would not bend to conventions. The present article analyzes how these questions are problematized in the following works: ‘A perna esquerda de Paris’, followed by ‘Roland Barthes e Robert Musil’ (2004), ‘O senhor Walser’ (2006), ‘Breves notas sobre as ligações’ (2009) and ‘Atlas do corpo e da imaginação: teoria, fragmentos e imagens’ (2013). In this study, I try to approach the poetics of Tavares to several works by the French thinker Roland Barthes (1915-1980), especially as regards ‘idiorrhythmy’, illegible writings and the hybridization of genres.