Experiência e representação na prosa de ficção brasileira contemporânea

Abstract

The present dissertation is focused on the hypothesis that it’s possible to see on the contemporary fiction prose some traces that point to an attempt of reproduces the impoverishment – also known as “deflationism” or “precariousness” – of experience. The point is to understand how the literature from today can, through different strategies, express this phenomenon, changing deeply the narrative statute. To discuss this hypothesis, was made an investigation about the concept of “experience”, covered by philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben. The observation of some contemporary social processes which are changing the concept of experience was also a vital part of this essay, and it was made under the works of Zygmunt Bauman, Jean Baudrillard and Gilles Lipovetsky. On a second moment, this dissertation focused on the analysis of the changes in contemporary fiction prose, in a specific thematic and formal axis, in which are the books chosen as main corpus of this essay. This corpus consists on four books from four brazilian writers: O vôo da madrugada (2003), from Sérgio Sant’Anna, Paraísos artificiais (2004), from Paulo Henriques Britto, Sonho interrompido por guilhotina (2005), from Joca Reiners Terron and A página assombrada por fantasmas (2011), from Antônio Xerxenesky.