Quando a literatura se torna simulacro: sociedade e ficção em Simulacros, de Sérgio Sant’Anna

Abstract

Simulacros (1977), by Sérgio Sant'Anna, presents itself as a work of controversial meanings in that it reflects on concepts such as simulacrum, representation, literature, among others, thus undermining theoretical constructs already solidified in the history of art. literary criticism. It is from this perspective that, in this study, we are dedicated to the analysis of the processing of the concept of simulacrum, in the spheres of social and fictional representation as performed in Simulacros (1977). Therefore, with regard to the study of social representation in such a narrative, taking into account themes such as postmodernism, contemporaneity and literary production in times of dictatorial censorship, we list as fundamental the studies of Antonio Candido (1985), Mikhail Bakhtin (2010), Carine Daniele Franke (2011), Deonísio da Silva (1986), Linda Hutcheon (1991), Luiz Costa Lima (2006), Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro (2002), Niza Villaça (1996) and Samira Pinto Almeida (2015), Sandra Reimão (1996) , Silviano Santiago (1989), among others. On the other hand, when dealing with the problem of fictional representation and considering the concepts of simulacrum and mimesis, we used authors such as Aristoteles (2011), Eric Auerbach (2015), Gilles Deleuze (1998; 1988, 1974), Jean Baudriland( 1991), Juan José Saer (2012), Luiz Costa Lima (2003, 2007), Plato (2003, 2006), Roland Barthes (2009)and Wolfgang Iser (2002). Methodologically, we make use of a bibliographic-qualitative research, in which we find out how Simulacros (1977) tends to reflect on social and fictional representation in a literary context based on the concept of simulacrum. Therefore, from the analysis of Simulacros (1977), we understand that this work performs a simulacrum in all its social and fictional composition, provoking a (re)(de)construction of the fictional reality itself, as well as the interpellation of its social context of production.