Policromía del discurso “desviatorio” en William Burroughs y Murilo Rubião

Abstract

Based on the theories of influence, the purpose of this paper consists in making evident the text both as a material object of the literary appropriation and as an intermediary that is opened up to indeterminacy. From the perspective of a comparative methodology, centered on the analysis of the experiments made by William Burroughs and Murilo Rubião, the hypothesis I propose holds—despite its elevated level of abstraction—that the “polychromous delirium”, always unfinished, operates a never-ending spiral. By moving between the well-defined limits of the communicative form (the phenotext) and the production of the genotext’s infinite multiplicity (Kristeva, 1981), the said spiral responds to the concatenation of objects—“absurd triangles, cones and spheres”—which flow in the free relationship between the author and the reader.