SIGNATURE AND COUNTERSIGNATURE: RICARDO LÍSIAS. AUTHOR'S PERFORMANCE
Signature; Ricardo Lísias; Performance; Countersignature; Contemporary literature.
This thesis aims to discuss how the signature of the author Ricardo Lísias is constructed. Based on Jacques Derrida‟s notion of signature, in dialogue with a theoretical-critical framework of the contemporary literature, we consider Lísias‟ name as exemplary for the problematization of how a signatory act is forged nowadays. The work promotes a displacement in the signature‟s comprehension, since it brings to discussion questions that challenge us to understand the recent literary practices. In order to develop the discussion proposed, the thesis is organized around three themes: the borderline between life and work, performance and countersignature. It is argued that the transformations in notions of authorship, work and literature‟s idea are related to a rearrangement between the real and the fictional, interfering with the ways an author signs. Thus, it‟s possible to think of how a type of intentionality can be identified in the author‟s performance, which is also a device that creates a signature. We observe that Lísias‟ acting inside and outside the text influences and monitors his work‟s reception, taking advantage of the countersignature in benefit of his own signatory act. Therefore, face a set of author‟s procedures that mobilize the theoretical discussion about signature, we understand that the author capitalizes on issues of our time in favor of his name‟s circulation, which induces his work to raising reflections about contemporary literary productions.