On the threshold of writing:

the death of the author and metafiction in Os guarda-chuvas cintilantes, by Teolinda Gersão

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the “death of the author” theorized by Roland Barthes, as well as apply the concept of metafiction to this theoretical discussion, because such a definition metaphorically affects the “body that writes”, revealing, however, fiction about the fiction itself and its linguistic identity in the work Os Umbrellas Cintilantes, by Teolinda Gersão. Knowing that the narrative under study is composed in the form of a diary, however the work does not essentially follow this structure, as there are other voices immersed in the text, as well as the character speculates and reflects his own writing and the role that the reader plays. acquires in this place, which is that of enunciation. The idea is to investigate how the perspective of the author, the narrator and the characters construct the language and, in turn, the literary text and, in addition, gives rise to the virtual reader-author who is immersed in the context of modern literature that seeks to give new meaning this metafictional discourse and promote new conceptions such as that of the modern scriptor that is born with the text, has no past, and states that in it there is a space of multiple dimensions, that is, the text as a fabric composed of quotations and, above all, that are married and different writings are contested, none of which is original. To this end, the following authors are used, namely: Roland Barthes (2004), Linda Hutcheon (1984), Michel Foucault (2001), Maurice Blanchot (2005), among others.