A reading of O Grifo de Abdera by Lourenço Mutarelli as multiple realities

Abstract

In the novel O Grifo de Abdera, the author Lourenço Mutarelli brings to the forefront of the narrative a game of multiple identities with conflituous relationships, but no less productive. In a mix of reality and fiction, Mutarelli suggests that he is but a character created by a writer who does not like being noticed, who, in turn, is played by an actor. From that, Mutarelli's literary and comic book career is revisited from the perspective of illusion and farce, taking his biographems as starting point. In addition to this expansion from fiction to reality (and back to fiction), there is also a long excerpt of the novel as a comic book, as well as performing acts, which leads the multiplication of realities from fiction.