Abstract
The contemporary/ postmodern cultural phenomena are usually characterized by the ironic and playful relationship (intertextuality) with the past and present cultures and by denying future planning. These aspects configure simulacra/hyper -realities, representations free from referential reality whose themes are, many times, linked to repres entation itself. On such aspects, the short story Em Busca de Curitiba Perdida (Searching of Lost Curitiba ) , by the Brazilian writer Dalton Trevisan , is notable: by means of its intertextuality with the roman-fleuve A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (Searching for Lost Time) , by the French writer Marcel Proust, Trevisan’s text questions Proust’s utopist union between art and life, creating a simulacrum whose base is, paradoxically, its own i mpotence.
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