Experimentalism in Brazilian contemporary prose: an analysis of the short story Corações ruidosos, by Alex Sens

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.35572/rlr.v9i3.1696 We elect as corpus of this article the short story Corações ruidosos, by Alex Sens. The story focuses on a bus trip, in which the characters are explored in order to reveal their life in the brief moments that are embraced by the narrative. Thi...

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Autores: Lopes, Lucas José de Mello, Araújo, Rosanne Bezerra de
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG)
Repositório:Revista Letras Raras
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.revistas.editora.ufcg.edu.br:article/1211
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.editora.ufcg.edu.br/index.php/RLR/article/view/1211
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Literatura contemporânea brasileira
Alex Sens
Fluxo da consciência
Conto
Brazilian contemporary literature
Stream of consciousness
Short story
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Resumo:DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.35572/rlr.v9i3.1696 We elect as corpus of this article the short story Corações ruidosos, by Alex Sens. The story focuses on a bus trip, in which the characters are explored in order to reveal their life in the brief moments that are embraced by the narrative. This simple plot is strengthened by the techniques used by the author, which echoes the experimental urge from the early English modernism. We intend to clarify the narrative strategies used by Alex Sens, with a special regard to the narrator, and to weave semantic bridges between form and content, components that are closely related on the story. For this purpose, we held a bibliographic review on discussions about the narrator and the stream of consciousness. At the end, we noticed that the author, exploring multiple narrative voices, imbricates death’s motif – which goes through the existence of all characters – in the text’s signifier, defying crystallized notions of literature theory