SELF-CONSCIENCE, INTERTEXTUALITY AND SUBJECTION: (ONE) METAFICTIONAL READING ABOUT BOLOR, BY AUGUSTO ABELAIRA

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze Augusto Abelaira's work named Bolor from the perspective of its metafictional elements, based mainly on structural principles found in studies about the narcissistic narrative of Linda Hutcheon. In this book, the metaficcionals references were grouped in three selected categories: discursive elements of the text itself, conveyed through confecional narrative in diary form, which generates more questions than answers, taking the reader into the process of writing; elements of intertextuality that allows a dialogue of literary text with other art forms such as painting and music, the first widely presented in the description of the chromatic masses of the characters and their behavioral textures and the second giving the highly dissonant narrative tone, finally, analysis of the political elements of the work, allowing the subjection of the Portuguese people, who went through a dictatorship, was reflected through "the sharing of sensitive", captured by the passivity of the characters. By showing these elements, Abelaira's work shows that it preocupation isn't the product itself, the finished work, he invites the reader to merge the process of making the story and even raises questions about this process, thus this work is one of the reference works in Postmodern Literature.