Personas autorais

This book approaches the concept of author and its function not only as an empirical origin of the work, but mainly as an intrinsic element, although not always explicit, in the construction of the text and in the production of the utterance. The essays that make up its first part, entitled "Prosarias" -- a neologism formed by the association of "prose" and "theories" -- analyze the various possibilities for the constitution of authorship in various objects related to language, narrative, theater, the cinema and poetry. Considering their central problematization, the essays gather around the reflections of Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Philippe Lejeune and Giorgio Agamben. The second part, "Theorems" -- a term that, here, goes beyond the normal meaning of statements that can be proved -- is a set of poems written mostly by the authors of the essays and also by guest poets. Like "prosarias", "theorems" is also a neologism, "theory" and "poems", alluding to the metalinguistic character of most texts, which, with the conciseness and beauty of the poetic text, express, even if in a way indirect, aspects of the problems analyzed in the previous part.