Literary reading as performance and the circuit of affections in the Library

Abstract

The following paper presents some reflections on what the objectives and perspectives of literary reading practices would be today based on the realization of the project “Literary Reading Itineraries and the circuit of affections in the library”, and considering the work of Paul Zumthor about the relationship between performance, reception and reading and the propositions of the philosopher Vladimir Safatle about how affections create bonds and organization of the social tissue. In other words, from an amplified notion of the term performance, in the sense of perception and reception of literature at the moment it is made present in the act of reading or listening, it is proposed to think about how the practice of literary reading can give rise to social dynamics of transformation, of the circuit of affections, caused by poetic fruition based on what was experienced in meetings with librarians, among other collaborators, from public libraries in the city of Londrina during the development of the project.