(Re)imaginar a vida e o passado

formas inespecíficas em Sai da frente do meu sol, de Felipe Charbel

Abstract

This article analyzes the book Sai da frente do meu sol (2023) by Felipe Charbel, drawing on Florencia Garramuño’s (2014) concepts of “unspecificity” and “expansive field” in conjunction with Reinaldo Laddaga’s (2013) notion of the “studio state.” The objective is to demonstrate how, in this work, the exposure of the writing process and the speculative investigation into the life of the character Ricardo (Charbel’s great-uncle) permeate reality, expanding into other media and literary circulation platforms. In this sense, Sai da frente do meu sol moves fluidly between distinct genres, such as the novel, the essay, speculative biography, and photographic analysis, among others, positioning itself in an unstable terrain between fiction and nonfiction. Through aesthetic figuration, the narrative explores the authorial instance as a simulacrum and/or performative strategy capable of destabilizing questions regarding the representation of the Other. Thus, the story of Uncle Ricardo becomes both an object of fascination and an exercise in subject fabrication, engaging both the narrator/writer conducting the investigation and the reader following this process.