Reader in opposition
Joao Antonio and the Night of Lapa (Noturno da Lapa)
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Margin notes, Joao Antonio, Personal LibraryAbstract
This paper examines some margin notes that were made by Joao Antonio in the work Noturno da Lapa by Luis Martins from Antonio’s personal library. The research on these notations along with statements from interviews with Joao Antonio, elucidate specific elements of his own aesthetic development. His antithetical stance toward Luis Martins’ narrative reveals literary beliefs founded on the necessity for the conscientious writer to approach reality with a clear agenda for social protest. The margin notes, besides acting as a record of Joao Antonio’s aesthetic points of view, provide examples of explicit dialogue between the reader, the work and the literary context of the time, as proposed in Mikhail Bakhtin’s studies on dialogism. This study helps to confirm the importance of such extratextual elements as a source of reflection on the thought and the aesthetic development of a writer.
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