Como lamber a língua de Roland Barthes: uma entrevista com Paloma Vidal

Abstract

In this dossier which deals with artists' writings, Palimpsesto – student magazine of the Postgraduate Program in Literature at UERJ – had the opportunity interview professor, translator and writer Paloma Vidal. PhD in Literature from PUC-Rio, she currently teaches Literary Theory at the Federal University of São Paulo. Born in Buenos Aires, she lived in Rio de Janeiro from the age 2 to 25 years old. Her experience between Brazil and Argentina is reflected in her theoretical and literary production. As a researcher, she has dedicated herself to work on contemporary Latin American literature and issues of literary theory, linked, among others, to narratives of exile, migration and travelling; to literature written under dictatorships; to the writings of the self and performance; to diaries, notebooks, and other forms of notetaking; to issues of translation and living between languages. A prolific writer, she has published several theoretical essays, novels, short stories, poetry, among others, in addition to maintaining her blog “Places where I'm not from” (www. Escritosgeograficos.blogspot.com). Our conversation started out with Paloma Vidal's relationship with the writings of Roland Barthes, whose work was the subject of the author's research and with whom she dialogues in her poetic and essayistic work. At the end of 2023, she released the essays book Not Writing [with Roland Barthes] through Tinta-da-China publishing house.