Abstract
Abstract: In a peripheral tradition, marked by aesthetic delays, the novel production in Brazil uses the concept of appropriation, not of codes of great specific authors. It uses elements from several narrative genres, undoing the limits among them. Such practice gives the contemporary Brazilian novel a status of synthesis of the postmodern narrative, in which other ways of narrating are experimented. As such, it is marked by a fictional vitality typical of nations open to borrowings and lootings. This essay analyzes the main lines of force in Brazilian current novel production and proposes an author as the main source.
Highlights
In a peripheral tradition, marked by aesthetic delays, the novel production in Brazil uses the concept of appropriation, not of codes of great specific authors
It uses elements from several narrative genres, undoing the limits among them. Such practice gives the contemporary Brazilian novel a status of synthesis of the postmodern narrative, in which other ways of narrating are experimented
This essay analyzes the main lines of force in Brazilian current novel production and proposes an author as the main source
Summary
As a seismographic assessment of the contemporary publishing market is no longer possible and as, at the same time, there is an increasingly pressing need to know this production, it is up to researchers working with recent literary manifestations to attempt to place some significant books and authors within representative lines of force. With the end of the dictatorship and the exhaustion of a narrative model dominated by the short story, Brazilian production gives way to the novel, which occupies most of the editorial spaces, reaching great levels of professionalization, with the emergence of new publishers who want to update their offer of titles. This transition, occurs when Brazilian literature suffers a much greater impact from international production – the opening of the market to translations of novels from various languages into Portuguese – and when it seeks to interfere in the global scenario, producing a cosmopolitan perspective. Contrary to that of Orhan Pamuk and other novelists and critics who find in the novel a way of speaking to more heterogeneous audiences
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