Bios-graphies of a thousand stolen roses: a critical biographical reading of youth in Silviano Santiago

Abstract

This article aims to explain a reading of Mil rosas roubadas (2014) based on the concept of life-graphies (SANTIAGO, 2020) and critical biographical epistemology (SOUZA, 2002). In the book Fisiologia da Composição (Physiology of Composition), published in 2019 by critic Silviano Santiago, the so-called "homological relationship" between the author's body and writing in literature is brought to light by the concept of life-graphs, in which literature is a compositional process in which the body is inscribed in the form of words. Therefore, the reading of Thousand Stolen Roses (2014) carried out in this article was guided by the concept of life-graphics, relating the work to the author's youth and highlighting the graphs we found. To this end, we will use the book Physiology of Composition (2019) and the essay "A thousand stolen roses: the metaphor of (re)telling a life", by thinkers Pedro Henrique Alves de Medeiros and Edgar Cézar Nolasco, as a theoretical framework to conceptualize life-graphics, and we will also use the propositions of the novel itself to trace the relationship between life, body and inscription. Finally, our reflection is based on a critical biographical epistemology (SOUZA, 2002) that marks our thinking in relation to the composite nature of Silviano's literature. We therefore hope to highlight the relationship between the body and literature.