Depois do sujeito: Formas narrativas contemporâneas e vida impessoal

Abstract

Some recent Brazilian literary texts have abandoned the story of an individual self to concentrate instead on a meticulous cartography of networks, clusters, relationships and situations that explore aspects of the impersonal and the anonymous. These texts interrogate the intensity of a life irreducible to the notion of a self. Texts written as the compilation of anonymous, overheard voices (as for example in Delírio de Damasco, by Verônica Stigger), or propose a radical decentering of the narrative voice by layering a multiplicity of registers (essay, critical commentary, testimony, fiction, photography), as in História natural da ditadura, by Teixeira Coelho. This essay finds, in the instability of discourses and literary forms, other ways to think about shared experiences in complex critical ways.