Hardships of contemporary fiction

Authors

  • Silvia Regina Pinto UERJ

Keywords:

Philosophy. Fiction. Crisis. Identity. Utopia

Abstract

In today’s world, in which we can see a radical transformation of things, nearly unprecedented crises emerge and affect all areas of activity, challenging culture, aesthetics, ethical values, notions of space and time, and the relations between public and private, as well as bringing serious political issues and complex problems to the very realm of thought. This essay aims at showing how contemporary fictional speech thematizes and discusses its own perplexity, attempting a reconciliation between language and reality in a relentless effort towards the confrontation of the human being with an “other” who is himself and, in this way, often making clear that fiction becomes necessary for the existence of the real.

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Author Biography

Silvia Regina Pinto, UERJ

Professora-Adjunta do Departamento de Cultura Brasileira, Teoria da Literatura, Literatura Brasileira e Literatura Comparada, Instituto de Letras, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), atuando na Graduação, no Mestrado em Literatura Brasileira e no Doutorado em Literatura Comparada. Doutorou-se em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Desenvolve pesquisas na linha: “Perspectivas filosóficas da teoria da literatura”, trabalhando os seguintes temas: teoria da literatura, filosofia, literatura e ficção, em perspectivas contemporâneas. Suas mais recentes publicações englobam “A performance do lobo”, In: Paisagens ficcionais: perspectivas entre o eu e o outro, org. VALLADARES, Henriqueta do Coutto Prado, Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2007, p.91-106, e, “Le réalisme dans la fiction brésilienne contemporaine“, palestra proferida na Sorbonne, em 17 de janeiro de 2008, atualmente em edição, a ser publicada pela revista do CREPAL (Centre de Recherches sur les Pays Lusophones, Sorbonne - Paris 3).

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Published

2008-06-30

How to Cite

Pinto, S. R. (2008). Hardships of contemporary fiction. Gragoatá, 13(24). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33166

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 24 (2008): Brazil and Africa: trajectories, faces and destination

Section

Literature Articles

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