The agony of the narrator in A Passagem Tensa dos Corpos

Abstract

The article analyzes the figure of the narrator of the novel A Passagem Tensa dos Corpos (2009), by Carlos de Brito e Mello, from reflections about Postmodernism and Post-Postmodernism. Initially, we analyze the process of "deterritorialization" of the postmodern subject of the late twentieth century, both in the sense of local belonging and in the aesthetic sense. From then investigates the emergence, in the early twenty-first century, the so-called Post-Postmodernism as a moment of redemption of literary categories. Given these considerations, the article delves into the analysis of the unusual configuration of the narrator of the novel Brito e Mello, whose essential characteristic is being a body without form, that is, a wholly textual being, a wholly linguistic being, whose movement is necessarily linked to the movement of the text.