OBSESSÃO PELA ESCRITA: NO TEMPO DOS PERSONAGENS RUISKA E VITTÓRIO, DE HILDA HILST

Abstract

This research examines Fluxo-Floema (1970), particularly the text “Fluxo,” and Estar Sendo. Ter Sido (1997) by Hilda Hilst, aiming to investigate how the obsession with writing manifests in the fiction of her characters Ruiska and Vittório, both engaged in the literary craft. These are the writer-characters from Hilst’s first and last published books, respectively. The central research question is: How do these writer-characters push the boundaries of narrative and construct an authorial self that challenges the forms of subjectivity of their time? The study is based on the hypothesis that time functions as a space of interweaving between the writer-characters and the narration of the self, serving as an operator of both consciousness and creation. The characters are thus constructed in a self-reflective way, establishing a metafictional dimension in which writing itself becomes an object of the narrative. This analysis creates a dialogue between literature and philosophy, drawing on authors such as Octavio Paz (The Bow and the Lyre, 2009), Maurice Blanchot (The Space of Literature, 1998; The Fire’s Share, 1999), Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space, 1999; The Intuition of the Instant, 1999; The Poetics of Reverie, 2000), and Linda Hutcheon (A Poetics of Postmodernism, 1991), as well as critical studies on Hilst’s work. The approach is bibliographic and theoretical-analytical.