erasure of the given name as an escrevivência trace

Abstract

 This work aims to propose a series of biographic-metaphoric-fictional reflections based on the proper name/signature erasure of the narrator in the novel Mil rosas roubadas (2014) wrote by the Brazilian (from Minas Gerais), literary criticist and essayist Silviano Santiago. This study emerges from the proper name/signature comprehension as traces that can be erased, of an ‘escrevivência’ crossed by presentifications of the absences from the death and the act of surviving (Silviano Santiago) to the loss of someone loved (Ezequiel Neves). In this way, we will take, as a support, the biographical criticism (Souza, 2002, 2011) (Nolasco, 2010, 2018) and the philosophic assumptions made by Jacques Derrida e Geoffrey Bennington as an epistemological basis of our discussions. It will be justified, mainly, through the concepts of proper name (Bennington, 1996) (Derrida, 1995, 1996, 2009), trace (Amaral, 2000) (Derrida, 2014) and ‘escrevivência’ (Evaristo, 2017a). Beyond the mentioned criticists at the theoretical referential we will take, as a support, Roland Barthes and Martin Heidegger to circumscribe our considerations in instances and games of proper languages to a critic biographic theorization which we pursue in this essay. Therefore, regarding the expected results, we will try to make it explicit that the line contained in the proper name/signature can neither be the origin nor the end but rather, an element that disappears and reappears simultaneously. Thus, even though Silviano erases his signature in the literary corpus of Mil rosas roubadas novel, his ‘escrevivência’ goes beyond himself going further the erasure and advancing his proper name, which, on the other hand, is inappropriate, for excellence.