ON DISCOURSE AND WORDS FRAGMENTATION: ANTONIO LOBO ANTUNES´ DELIRIOUS WRITING

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  • Cláudia Amorim Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

Lobo Antunes, postmodernism, discursivity

Abstract

António Lobo Antunes’ fictional writing presents a unique style since his first published novels. Author of nearly three dozen works, including novels and chronicles, his novelistic fiction, particularly from his last phase, is characterized by a fragmented writing, which includes, among others, discursive linearity disruption, decomposition of words, and unusual punctuation. This innovative style and the graphic layout chosen for his writings evoke a feeling of awkwardness, enhanced by traces of postmodern aesthetics as polyphony, and metafictional discourse, among others. This twist in the author’s discursive style brings about rich images evoked by figures of speech such as metaphors, hyperbole, hypallage, and repetitions (refrains), resulting in a delirious and imagistic discourse. In this paper, various of these features are characterized in connection to some of his novels, particularly the most recent one: “Não é meia noite quem quer”.

Author Biography

Cláudia Amorim, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Doutora em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2006) e Pós-Doutora em Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade de São Paulo (2012). Atualmente é professora adjunta da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, atuando na graduação e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UERJ (subárea Mestrado em Literatura Portuguesa). Mantém um Convênio com a Xunta de Galiza, através do sistema de Leitorado.

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Published

2013-06-19

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Amorim, C. (2013). ON DISCOURSE AND WORDS FRAGMENTATION: ANTONIO LOBO ANTUNES´ DELIRIOUS WRITING. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 20(32). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/19846

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Vol. 20 No. 32 (2013): Stylistics

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Linguistic Papers

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