LOOKING FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ETHIC OF WRITING
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i21p106-114Keywords:
Ethic of writing; Authorship; Contemporary literature; Javier CercasAbstract
In his famous conference “What is an author” (1969), Foucault develops the author-function concept making a differentiation between it and the “ethical principle of writing” of his times, which was marked by an indifference to the authorial voice. Today, almost fifty years later, we could affirm the ethic of writing has changed radically if we take the complex phenomenon known as “the author return” into consideration. Thus, we ask: what is the contemporary ethic of writing? To answer that question, we analyze the Javier Cercas’ novel Soldiers of Salamina (2001), as well as the theoretical contribution of Giorgio Agamben (2007) and Daniel Link (2010). Finally, we venture to affirm that the contemporary ethic of writing consists precisely in the search for an ethic of writing, in a movement in which what matters is the search and not the conclusion, the process and not the finish.
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