Literature and the city: Luiz Ruffato’s São Paulo
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2008v12p66Keywords:
Contemporary city, Linguage, SubjectiveAbstract
This paper discusses Luiz Ruffato’S novel, Eles eram muitos cavalos, in which the city of São Paulo is both a space and a narrative character. The writer presents a moisaic of silent voices while describing a day in the city of São Paulo through the sharp view of the narrator. The only possible link is the line formed by the life in this global city: the 21st century São Paulo. Ruffato resorts to literary language to recreate the city, but he also makes use of other languages to achieve the best aesthetic solution of the text: “photograms”. They are built in a careful way so that nothing is left out of the focusing eye; no place of this complex and bizarre human geography is forgotten.Downloads
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