Involuntary biography of writting

Abstract

This article proposes a reading into “Biografia involuntária dos amores”, by João Tordo (2017). This book, from the perspective of contemporary Portuguese Literature, is read for its cosmopolitanism, uprooting and ontological vacuum. Based on an incomplete manuscript left by Teresa Brión, the narrator sets out on a melancholic itinerary through different spaces. However, at several moments he leaves open the possibility that nothing is true, everything is made up or even dreamed. As a theoretical contribution to the proposed approach to the study of melancholy and writing, we have theorists such as Freud (1996), Ginzburg (2011), Benjamin (1984), Silva (2016), Silva (2017).