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has established himself as a key figure among Brazilianists in contemporary Brazilian literature. His new book, Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction, published by Anthem Press, brings together some of his recent works. These deal with topics such as literary post-autonomy, self-fiction and the publishing market, among others, all converging around the notion of contemporaneity. Divided into eight chapters and a preface, Affect and Realism moves as a parable: it begins with an analysis of the contemporary in Brazilian literature -and its unresolved dialogue with ghosts of the past, such as the Military Dictatorship -, and ends, as the title of the final chapter itself proposes, with a "Farewell to the Contemporary!". A parable that perhaps can be thought of as analogous to the political and social scenario of present-day Brazil, in which an old authoritarianism reappears in new guises. Schøllhammer leaves no loose ends; he proposes an in-depth overview of literary production in Brazil today, and that is what he delivers. The
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