Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato

In an era dominated by terms such as "localism" and "globalization", which show the importance contemporaneity gives to space, would it still be worthy to dedicate on eself to a body of work that aims to pursue the last fifty years of Brazilian history from a perspective that, in...

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Main Author: Giovanna Dealtry
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade de Brasília 2009-01-01
Series:Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
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Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=323127098009
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description In an era dominated by terms such as "localism" and "globalization", which show the importance contemporaneity gives to space, would it still be worthy to dedicate on eself to a body of work that aims to pursue the last fifty years of Brazilian history from a perspective that, initially, seems to favor focusing one's gaze precisely on modernity's time paradigms? This is one of the questions that this article on the literary project Inferno provisório, by LuizRuffato, seeks to answer. In considering Walter Benjamin's ideas on the concept of history, Iinvestigate the path taken by Rufatto in his quest to understand Brazil from the point of view of the proletariat without, however, abdicating from fictional innovation.
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Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato
Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
contemporary brazilian literature and history
luiz ruffato
title Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato
title_full Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato
title_fullStr Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato
title_full_unstemmed Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato
title_short Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato
title_sort cidades em ruinas a historia a contrapelo em inferno provisorio de luiz ruffato
topic contemporary brazilian literature and history
luiz ruffato
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