The writer as acharacter and the reader as an accomplice in Sérgio Sant´Anna’s works.

Abstract

Sérgio Sant'Anna’s narratives suggest, by the recurring exposure of the behind the scenes of literary creation (understood here as a literary gesture), that the fictional discourse goes beyond the space of literature, reflecting the relationships of individuals in the “the "real world”. In his prose, it is clear that the narrators attempt to bring the reader nearer to their perspectives, when the narrative is like a game where the prize is the complicity of the individual to whom it is addressed. Thus, a two-way track  is created between life and the imaginary, so that one constitutes and is constituted by the other. As stated by Carlos Santeiro, a character on Um romance de geração, this is the “potential possibilities” of the text beyond the text, since the agreement between fictional narrator and reader – which supports the literary event – carries many of the assumptions of the several instances of discourse between individuals, fictional or not.