PESSOAS DE LIVRO: FIGURAÇÃO E SOBREVIDA DA PERSONAGEM

Abstract

In this text I examine, among other issues, what remains of fictional characters after we finish reading. This issue is analyzed alongside the concept of figuration, the possible synthesis of everything that determines the creation of a character that fiction, either explicitly or implicitly, exhibits. A thorough examination requires the contextualization of these issues within narrative studies that recently reincorporated the narrative category of the fictional character that during several decades had been neglected. From this study of figuration, I work with the notion of fictional survival, considered the ontological drift of the character. As a result of its migration from the possible fictional worlds to the real one, the character acquires its own existence. This is what the phenomenology of reading contemplates, within the frame of the life of the literary work.