IN THE AGE OF MULTIPLICITY: FRAGMENTATION, INTENSITY AND SPEED IN THE TALE CATÁSTROFE, BY LUIZ VILELA

Abstract

The contemporary narrative, in its multiple supports, becomes a wide and privileged space when portraying social themes and fictionalizing everyday tensions. As a mark of this period, the literature presents itself in a crumpled and fragmented way revealing new nuances and configuration possibilities. From these initial considerations, the present article intends to make considerations about this condition experienced by the contemporary literature. To do so, it will analyze the tale Catástrofe (2002) by writer Luiz Vilela. We identify in this narrative the striking characteristics of this scenario in which fragmentation and intensity dictate the social relations. In the contrasted story, the expressiveness is presented by the absence of a narrator. Thus, the reader is brought to the presentation of the facts by the constitutive force of fragmented, intense and fast dialogues that reveal a fragmented subject.