Suíte Cemitério: Trânsitos entre minificção e crônica na literatura brasileira

Abstract

Formally practiced in Brazil since the late 1960´s, minifiction has only been consolidated in the country from the orbit of the turn of the 21st century, when the micronarratives of Dalton Trevisan, Fernando Bonassi, Heloísa Seixas and João Gilberto Noll, among other authors, drew academy, reading audience and specialized press’ attention. From the first researches about the genre – or sub-genre, or even supra-genre – in the 2000’s, mostly grounded over a Hispano-American theoretical framework, in the absence of specific studies in the country so far, a minificitional tradition was gradually unveiled. Although minifiction (or sudden fiction, microfiction, flash fiction) shares procedures with many other literary and extraliterary of short form (minute poem, news, haikai, slogan, graffiti, cartoon) expressions, the investigation of its genealogy in Brazil points to a very particular approach to a (un)specific genre: the chronicle. One shares with the other the briefness, ambiguity, the generic hybridism and the taste for the everyday things, playing not only with the undifferentiation of the nature of its textualities, but often with the clouding of the border between real and fiction. A constant search for the unspecific which can be observed from Clarice Lispector’s “micrônicas” in Jornal do Brasil to Fernando Bonassi instants in Folha de São Paulo.