A questão da literatura: obra e autoria em Michel Foucault.

Abstract

This text is intended to discuss literature in Michel Foucault under two key concepts to his analysis: work and authorship. Having in mind literary references that range from Sade and Mallarmé to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, through his concepts of “transgression” and “the thought from outside”, not to mention the “writing procedure” Raymond Roussel, the French philosopher criticizes the idea of the existence of a subject, an author behind the writing, and establishes the work as the non-place of literary language. We thus have another concept of literature, that flees from the traditional definitions of stiffness of writing, and even of the language in its own uniqueness.

Keywords

• literature
• michel foucault
• authorship
• language