The risks of the novel: Mario Levrero's El Discurso Vacío

• Grant number: 12/19585-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: December 17, 2012
• End date: February 16, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Paloma Vidal
• Grantee: Paloma Vidal
• Host Investigator: Julio Premat
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Vincennes Saint-Denis (Paris 8), France

Abstract

Having as a start point some observations about changes suffered by the novel in the recent decades, in special in the Latin-American context, this research aims to understand how can we place these transformations in a wider debate that involves the processes by which since Modernity art has become autonomous. If the novel was the modern literary genre par excellence, what could these changes tell us about literature present state as an autonomous art? The objective of this research is to systematize, actualize and deepen some of the fundamental theoretical contributions to this debate, so to elaborate a paper about the novel El discurso vacío, from Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. (AU)