The many arts in Santiago, by João Moreira Salles

Authors

  • Jacques Fux Pós-doutorando em Teoria Literária - IEL- UNICAMP. Bolsista FAPESP
  • Darlan Roberto dos Santos UNIPAC - professor e coordenador

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2012v17n1p156

Abstract

This article discusses the documentary Santiago, by João Moreira Salles, exploring the many arts of the main character Santiago. Besides being very rich in its autobiographic approach, the film allows us to establish some connections with literature and some characters of Borges and Flaubert, as it relates to performance and documentary theories. Santiago, disguised as a butler for over four decades, began to accumulate delusions. While working at the residence of the Moreira Salles, he typed 30,000 cards, classified and cataloged his own story and the “history of great men”. His notes are the record of his passage through Literature and History. The film by João Moreira Salles ensures Santiago’s posterity, in the same way that reports of Dante and the creations and inventions of Borges ensure the existence of their characters. Santiago, as a Flaubert’s copyist, lives and is reinvented on the screen through his testimony, memory, art and through the auto fictional documentary by Salles.

Author Biographies

Jacques Fux, Pós-doutorando em Teoria Literária - IEL- UNICAMP. Bolsista FAPESP

Pós-doutorando em Teoria Literária - UNICAMP. Doutor em Literatura Comparada - UFMG. Docteur em Langue, Littérature et Civilisation Françaises - Lille 3. Bolsista FAPESP.

Darlan Roberto dos Santos, UNIPAC - professor e coordenador

Doutor em Literatura Comparada (Linha de pesquisa: Literatura, História e Memória Cultural) pela UFMG. Possui graduação em Comunicação Social, habilitação Jornalismo, pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (1998) e mestrado em Letras (Teoria da Literatura) pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (2006).  Professor e coordenador do curso de Comunicação Social da Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos (campus Conselheiro Lafaiete).

Sem título, Nadir Ferrari

Downloads

Published

2012-05-23

How to Cite

FUX, Jacques; DOS SANTOS, Darlan Roberto. The many arts in Santiago, by João Moreira Salles. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 17, n. 1, p. 156–171, 2012. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2012v17n1p156. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2012v17n1p156. Acesso em: 7 jan. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Thematic articles: Literatura e Cinema

License

This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources. The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Licença Creative Commons
Este trabalho está licenciado com uma Licença Creative Commons - Atribuição 4.0 Internacional.