Do que não se pode escapar: reflexões (teórico-)(literárias) para um pensamento da responsabilidade da arte

Abstract

In this text I tried to think the relation between art and answerability by advancing the problem of the answerability of the event in the same way as formulated by Bakhtin in his first text, “Art and Answerability”. My aim was to test the limits of this Bakhtinian relation by addressing it to texts that could fit such purpose, such as the latter writings of Bakhtin, Bolaño’s and Bulgakov’s prose, as well as a paper of Vladimir Safatle. By doing this I suggest that Bakhtin claims an intricate and radical position concerning this problem. This led me to think — among other things — about the following: a) different possible meanings of the latter writings of Bakhtin; b) the behavior of El Ojo Silva in the short story that carries his name; c) inconsistencies in Safatle’s criticism of Bakhtinian’s theory about the comical; d) and finally a tragic ambiguous aspect of Bulgakov’s criticism of soviet power.