A cozinha do sentido de Roland Barthes na ficção do escritor-crítico Silviano Santiago

Abstract

This work establish a discussion that brings into play the make critic-literary of Silviano Santiago from fictions O banquete (1977), Uma história de família (1992) and De cócoras (1999), to investigate the powers of literature as the behaviors and practices of language that are linked to the semiologic conceptions of the philosopher Roland Barthes, in relation to the supplementary dimensions of culture and civilization reversed in the kitchen of meaning (2001): the realization of a making of signs from the prospect of a cook whose inventiveness achieves a singular production of meaning, promoting the resignification of multiple affections, resistance, beliefs, prohibitions or taboos, death and life, violations of human meanings in permanent transformation. This constant reworking, pulsating in Silviano Santiago’s texts, may open fissures and break with the castrating structures of thought, which places him outside the interpretative tradition of the canon, the sublime, constituting a counter discourse capable of causing unexpected and unsuspected becomings. The movements of the organism during eating (perception, digestion and excretion – processes of transformation of food and body) are our triggers of the resignification of the meanings. In confluence with this unusual Barthes perspective and critical writing of the Brazilian author, we add the Gilles Deleuze’s perception concepts (2007), the Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s becomings and the constitution of the body without organs (1996; 1997), the disconcerting feeling of the Jacques Derrida’s animal séance (2002), as well as other instances of the French philosophical strand of the 20st century. In addition to these contributions, we count on the various critical productions of Silviano Santiago, ensuring the heterogeneity of his writings, since the critical-writer stimulates the use of his poetic in critical texts and the understanding of his literature with essayistic pulsations. Considering the affinities between knowledge as literature, aesthetics and philosophy, the fiction of Silviano Santiago enters the kitchen of meaning, manifesting, according to Barthes, a deconstructive discourse that pierces the fascism of language (1987), unattaching places, making disrupt boundaries and establishing unincorporated expressions (or yet to come), flavors not experienced, from which emerges the new.