EXCESS AS LANGUAGE PEST: LITERATURA AS ANTIDOTE? (LANGUAGES, TECHNOLOGIES, SUPERABUNDANCE OF IMAGES)

Authors

  • Renato Cordeiro Gomes PUC-Rio

Keywords:

superabundance of images, Italo Calvino, Ricardo Piglia.

Abstract

We can consider as a starting point the installation City of São Sebastião: a journey through times and spaces of Rio de Janeiro, produced by the videomaker Marcello Dantas (1996), with a view to bringing together the relationships between technologies and superabundance of images, which generate the saturation of information. We can associate this excess with what Italo Calvino named "language pest" and with what Ricardo Piglia links to the "deliberate obscurity of the language converted into an occupied territory", stating that literature should function as a kind of antidote. Both writers, therefore, discuss the values of literature and language, which characterize their proposals for this millennium.

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Author Biography

Renato Cordeiro Gomes, PUC-Rio

Doutor em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, é professor associado do Departamento de Comunicação Social e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras da mesma Instituição. É pesquisador do CNPq e exerce na PUC-Rio os cargos de coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e coordenador-adjunto da Cátedra Padre Antônio Vieira de Estudos Portugueses. Entre suas publicações, figuram os livros Todas as cidades, a cidade (Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1994), João do Rio: vielas do vício, ruas da graça (Rio de Janeiro: Relume-Dumará, 1996), bem como o volume Marques Rebelo (São Paulo: Global, 2004), que organizou para a Coleção Melhores Crônicas.

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Published

2004-07-07

How to Cite

Gomes, R. C. (2004). EXCESS AS LANGUAGE PEST: LITERATURA AS ANTIDOTE? (LANGUAGES, TECHNOLOGIES, SUPERABUNDANCE OF IMAGES). Gragoatá, 9(16). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33338

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 16 (2004): Languages

Section

Language Articles

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