Abstract
This paper will focus on Evando Nascimento’s first book, retrato desnatural (diários - 2004 a 2007), published by Record in 2008 and characterized by Leila Perrone-Moisés as part of contemporary Brazilian “challenging literature”. The paper aims to analyze the various series of fragments comprising the book, and for which each chapter stipulates a variable rule. Within these fragments, the composition of the whole is achieved through a remarkably unique weaving of parts and sections, particularly in the epigraphic configurations, the sparce citations, the titling, and in the extensive play with graphisms that subvert typical writing conventions. There is a dense reconfiguration of the medium for exposing a diaristic self-portrayal that raises the issues of textual and environmental spatiality, and that propagates the undecidability between textuality and scenery, human and inhumane, the material and immaterial, lucidity and delirium. In essence, it is an overt operation of the de-naturalization of the “self” and the world.
Keywords
nature; Brazilian contemporary literature; delirium; Evando Nascimento; diary