Um devir-Valéria

Abstract

“Becoming-Valéria” intends to point out the production of the novelist Maria Valéria Rezende: a 76 years-old catholic missionary. The aim of this paper is to capture the affections that cross her craft of writing through an expressive body of these affections. The meeting with the author encourages a movement that starts a writing freed from a linear narrative and also from a representation that creates a distance between the authors and the writer. The relations of forces in struggle and the power to affect and to be affected of Maria Valéria’s writing-body-life were presented. That’s a question of becoming, in which other forces are released in the course of aging and old age in the writer’s missionary life as well as in her literature. The poetic language adopted has apprehended the vibration of the affections that infected the body of the writer and the author. A language of pathos, free from the logic of representation, is the experimental option of this paper.