Transbordamento: ficções diárias de Evando Nascimento

Abstract

The writings of Evando Nascimento are traversed by a multidiversity. The author’s works are composed by three books of fiction – retrato desnatural: diários 2004-2007 (2008), Cantos do mundo (2011) e Cantos profanos (2014). The narratives mix and dissolve the units of genre in speech and subvert the notions of genre/gender both in the level of the species (man x animals) and of the sexes (man x woman), engendering differences. From the inordinate aspect of the diary, named “genre of genres” by the author, the reader is invited to interact in the textuality. This essay proposes to peer into Evando Nascimentos’ literature through deconstruction thought, Jacque Derrida’s philosophy. The Brazilian fictionist was a pupil of Derrida and considers himself an attentive reader of his writings. From deconstruction approach, Evando Nascimento sows onto his works the ideas of archi-écriture, différance, pli, indécidable, rature, supplément, among others, producing an origami literature that assumes different forms and blurs the paper’s limits, causing an overflow of things-beings. Engage in Evando Nascimento’s writings various voices, notably that of Clarice Lispector. In face of the convergence of trails and breaths, a hybrid literature is (de)composed, bestiary that harbors in its tissue humans, animals, plants and things, cross-connected in narratives under the operatives of autofiction and alterfiction. The I that signs and dates the diaries transverses himself in others – translates, in the act of his performance, the ethical and political strength of literature, this strange institution haunted by ideas of freedom and democracy.