UM CRÍTICO NA PROVÍNCIA ULTRAMARINA: SILVIANO SANTIAGO

This dissertation investigates Silviano Santiago's thought from the relationship between his life and work, taking into account the repetition of certain themes and their respective writing forms. Our work begins with Silviano's childhood in the countryside of Minas Gerais, highlighting his readings, especially the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Then, the focus moves to the critic's maturity, when he returns to Brazil to teach at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s. At that time, Silviano invests in fiction and theoreticalcritical writing while incorporating the results of reading thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Claude Lvi-Strauss into his work. He is interested in highlighting and discussing the tensions between structuralism and post-structuralism, a theme that permeates his repertoire since his research and teaching stints in French and North American institutions. Incorporating Silviano's life-writing into the investigation of his theoretical and fictional work, outlined in his cosmopolitan formation, this research aims to offer another understanding to the author's critical universe.