Description

"I don't know if it's already been said that encyclopedias—formerly on paper and now electronic—are the most extensive universal cemetery of biographies of the remarkable private lives responsible for the history of humankind on the face of the earth." —Silviano Santiago

In June 2022, the Brazilian critic and writer Silviano Santiago gave a conference titled Life scripts which is part of this new title we are presenting from the Essays and Lectures collection.

Published by the museum's Literature Department, Life scripts This collection brings together two essays in which the renowned Brazilian writer and literary critic Silviano Santiago condenses over 30 years of work on fiction and its counterpart, biography. Through an exploration of the diverse sources of the biographical genre, Santiago proposes a new category for thinking about and writing these personal histories: the "graphy of life." These texts, previously unpublished in Spanish, address his critical and fictional bibliography in relation to figures such as Graciliano Ramos, Antonin Artaud, and Machado de Assis, and delve into the origins of biographical literature, its evolution, and its close relationship with the emergence of the reading public. This all stems from the following initial assertion: compared to poetry and narrative fiction, the biographical genre is a "young art."

Author
Silviano Santiago

Technical specifications
Published by: Malba
Year: 2022
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 18 x 13 cm
Weight: 110 gr
Spanish
Pages: 48
ISBN: 978-987-48521-6-8