FRAGMENTATION AND (DIS)ORDER IN NOLLIAN FICTIONAL INSTANTS A SCHIZOANALYTIC APPROACH OF LEAST COMMON MULTIPLES (2003)
schizoanalysis - fragment - fictional instants - contemporary narrative - neo-baroque
This thesis proposes a detailed investigation into textual fragmentation and its consequences in the construction of contemporary narrative, with a specific focus on the work Mínimos Múltiplos Comuns (2003) by João Gilberto Noll. This book, made up of short texts published for the first time in “Relâmpagos”, a column of Folha de São Paulo's “Ilustrada” section between 1998 and 2001, presents a fragmentary language that evokes the concept of Barthean narrative haikus through its 338 “fictional instants”, as Noll calls them, and which are characterized by concision, prosaicism and an impression of reality. The analysis is based on theories of literary fragmentation, particularly those proposed by Barthes (1986; 1987; 1989; 2004; 2005; 2015), Novalis (1988), Schelegel (1997) and Susini-Anastopoulos (1997), as well as using the concepts of schizoanalysis by Deleuze & Guattari (2014), the notion of chaosmosis by Guattari (2012), and the theory of the neo-baroque by Sarduy (1975; 1979, 1989, 1999).