Leaving fiction: non-literary narratives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p329-345Keywords:
Non-fiction novel, Fiction, NotationAbstract
Considering the inaugural moment of the novel and the hybridism of contemporary forms that accept non-literary genres as material for their narratives (essays, diaries and notes), this essay aims to investigate the idea of the “non-fiction novel”, a nomenclature present in recent publications, in order to reflect on the dissociation between the modern idea of literature and the concept of fiction. In a commentary on Rodrigo Rey Rosa's El Material Humano, this essay explores the relationship between the use of the first person narrative (whose voice is mixed with that of the author) and the form of the narrative, which seems to be a set of notes for a future production. My purpose is to test the hypothesis that the current invasion of narratives by non-literature presupposes a writing scene in which the subject that tells the story and the elaboration of what is narrated are exposed processually, provoking a change in the status of what we currently understand by literary
Downloads
References
Costa Lima, Luiz (org.). Mímesis e a reflexão contemporânea. Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 2010.
Gallagher, Catherine. “Ficção”. In: Moretti, Franco (org.). A cultura do romance. Tradução Denise Bottmann. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2009, 629-658.
Goldman, Francisco. “Interview with Rodrigo Rey Rosa”. In: Bomb Magazine, New York, 1º out. 2013. Disponível em: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/rodrigo-rey-rosa/. Acesso em 1º abr. 2019.
González, Francisco. “El material humano (Rodrigo Rey Rosa)”. In: Devaneos, 24 maio 2018. Disponível em: http://www.devaneos.com/literatura-guatemalteca/el-material-humano-rodrigo-rey-rosa/. Acesso em 1º abr. 2019.
Groys, Boris. Volverse público: las transformaciones del arte en el ágora contemporánea. Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2014.
Moro, Alberto Bruzos. “Alberto reseña a Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala)”. In: El roommate: colectivo de lectores, 16 fev. 2011. Disponível em: https://elroommate.com/2011/02/16/alberto-resena-a-rodrigo-rey-rosa/. Acesso em 1º abr. 2019.
Rey Rosa, Rodrigo. O material humano. Tradução Josely Vianna Baptista. São Paulo: Saraiva, 2011.
Roth, Philip. “Writing American Fiction”. In: Klein, Marcus. (ed.). The american novel since World War II. Greenwich: Fawcett, 1969, p.132-145.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2019 Luciene Azevedo
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits the dissemination of the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are allowed to enter into additional contracts separately for non-exclusive use of the version of the work published in this journal (such as publication in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes, as well as increasing the impact and citation of the published work (see The effect of open access…).
