Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
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- ISBN 9781785275562
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century.
In contemporary Brazilian prose, two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose, without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project.
Karl Erik Schøllhammer is Full Professor at the Department of Language and Literature at the Pontifície Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and a researcher at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq) and Cientista do Nosso Estado (Faperj).
