Narrativa e poder: ficções pós-utópicas de Sérgio Sant'Anna

Abstract

The manifest conviction in modern romance that the narrator’s intent to represent reality would be ideological from the start, even before any ideological content, points to a crisis in the narration act itself, placed thereafter under suspicion, as to tell a story would mean to impart an order to the chaos of events, and, in a certain way, to provide meaning, by means of a discursive trick, to what makes no sense. In the end of the XX century, such a skepticism in respect of the epical objectiveness increased, so opening more space by the time for reports in the first person, through which narrative is characterized as an instrument of power. By this approach, the text presents a reflection on the contemporary Brazilin literature, by taking Sérgio Sant’Anna’s fictional work as a base.