Do corpo ao texto: A indissolubilidade entre a experiência estética e erótica em narrativas de Sérgio Sant'Anna

Abstract

In the contemporary Brazilian literature scene, Sérgio Sant’Anna is an author who stands out for his inventiveness in writing, especially with regard to formal experimentalism. His fiction illustrates well a type of restless, mutant art, which absorbs and filters signs and codes coming from other instances, to constantly resignify itself. Among the fields of force of his literature, this research focuses on two obsessive veins that run through his texts: the expressive erotic charge and the exacerbated consumption of other arts. Therefore, the present work consists of investigating the indissolubility between the aesthetic and erotic experience in Sérgio Sant’Anna’s fiction, seeking to identify to what extent his writing attests to the inseparability between the “possibilities” of the text and the body. To this end, we appropriated the work The Book of Prague: narratives of love and art (2011), in order to evaluate how these two obsessions connect and favor the production of a fiction governed by the exorbitance of the body. As its narrator, an artist-writer, not only flirts with various artistic objects, but also puts his body into “play”, interacting erotically with them, we seek to evaluate how the narratives of different sensory perceptions arise not only from his involvement with art but also from his erotic relationships. To develop this proposal, we initially investigated how the chosen work operationalizes the modes of production of eroticism, such as the relations between desire, body, continuity and discontinuity. The creation of an excessive, convulsive and dizzying writing, marked by the multiplication of signifiers, rhetorical effects and other discursive procedures, led us to analyze how vertigo, immoderation and excess materialize in the execution of texts. In this journey, we analyze the erotic experience as a device that interrogates coercive patterns and as an instrument that unites body and text, a fusion that even contributes to eliminating the boundaries between life and art. Finally, we seek to verify how the intersection between different artistic languages is capable of making the language of the body present in the work studied. The investigation included qualitative-interpretative bibliographic research, in which the theoretical assumptions of Eliane Robert Moraes, Georges Bataille, Octavio Paz, Robert Stoller, Samira Chalhub, among others, were used. The study showed, among other things, that the erotic nature attributed to Sant’Anna aesthetics is not specifically due to bringing sexuality into the writing scene, but rather to the fact that it is a narrative whose elaboration seeks to create a relationship of completeness between the subject and his art, between the artist and his object of desire.