O processo tornado visível: metaficção paródica e narrativa policial em O Xangô de Baker Street

Abstract

This thesis discusses and analyzes as the parodic metafiction, namely, the process that makes fiction visible by repetition with difference, enhances the creation of a different detective narrative in the novel A Samba for Sherlock (1995), by Jô Soares. The research is established by readings which take into account mainly the parodic metafiction, the autopoietic writing, the humor as the art of surfaces, as well as the fabulation of worlds to come, making use of concepts of the philosophy of difference in Deleuze and Guattari and literary criticism, especially in Linda Hutcheon, Blanchot and Foucault such as autopoietic machine, humor, fabulation, metafiction, parody, space of literature and work. In the plane of composition, the novel of the Brazilian humorist makes its fictional reality visible, parodying literary and historiographical works, mainly the Doylian detective narratives, and work related to the Rio de Janeiro of the late nineteenth century. In this sense, this work develops a writing that remains in itself, displaces significations and sees its fictional reality. In Soares’s heterocosm, the narrative brings together the space of a library. The appeal of the work is in the convening of stereotypes presented in books on the capital of the empire of the tropics at the end of the second reign, as well as on detective narratives. The repetition with difference of books and works call into question deep-rooted images, making room for fabulation “in flagrante delicto” of worlds that constitute the writing surface and not reduce itself to sedimentation.