Errâncias

The Bio-Joined Collection of Décio Pignatari

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the book Errâncias, by the Brazilian writer Décio Pignatari. The incursion into the universe of biographical and fictional narrative, with the publication of O rosto da memória (1986), Panteros (1992) and Errâncias (2000) reiterated and updated, elements of the avant-garde poetics of concretism and theoretical questions of his intellectual activity in Communication and Semiotics. These books can be located in the "photoliterary territory", as the critic Jean-Pierre Montier (2015) names them. Printed in photographic album format, Errâncias articulates the images of the “acervo biojuntado” [bio-joined collection] (Pignatari10) by the writer with texts that hybridize the essay and the autobiography, the self-writing and writing about the others, in which the pages of a lifetime and reflections on friends, intellectual references, landscapes and texts are leafed, as the "metaphor of the album" suggests (Reverseau, 2017). As we propose, the thought by agglutination stresses the boundaries between languages, textual genres and discursive regimes of fiction, essay and autobiography, also acting as a procedure that approximates the writer’s archive to the book project. This reading dialogue with the assumptions of literary theory, psychoanalysis and studies on image and archive.