Contemporary figurations on space in José Eduardo Agualusa
Space and literature; José Eduardo Agualusa;The book of chameleons, contemporaneity;politics of literature
Through experimentation between collections of symbolic goods that literature shares (CANCLINI, 2008), the tension of spatial representation emerges like a politic act of interference, dynamisation, provocation and destabilization which we pursue investigate in the writing of José Eduardo Agualusa, through the book O vendedor de passados (2004). In the present work, we aim to detect the presence of vectors in different approaches, like the phenomenology (BACHELARD, 2008), the semiotic (BARTHES, 2003a), the human geography (HOLZER, 2008), among others. With the objective of not outline a determining analysis, but to be a rotational point filled with lucubration about the space, since it presents a particular adaptability in literary theory, like Brandão introduce (2013), we also investigate a conversation with others forms of art, like the photography (BARTHES, 2012). In this substance, the literature will possibility Jacques Rancière’s “Distribution of the Sensible” (RANCIÈRE, 2005): the refraction of sensibilities that, through diversity, establish a democratic aesthetic in unity, because this spaces puncture the commonplace making circulate the heterogeneities inherent to social relationships, in other words, they are spaces of resignification (FOUCAUT, 1984). Therefore, while the literary writing provokes fissures by the alchemic power, Agualusa advance between pasts and dreams, pointing his mask with the finger (BARTHES, 2004), questioning symbolic and identity territories.