In the past few decades, Latin American literature has developed a trend towards a realist mode of representation, which is intended to re-establish the link between literature and factual reality, with an explicit political and social commitment. At the same time, it challenges traditional modes of representation, which are no longer sustainable in the context of the transformation of the social, political and economic structures of our time, which changes our perception of reality. It thus challenges the capacity of literary language to represent the concrete and historical reality. In this context, Eles eram muitos cavalos (Luiz Ruffato 2001) emerges as one of the most complex and extreme examples of this trend. This paper studies the elements that lead us to consider this novel as a case of this critical return to realism, with particular emphasis on some of the literary devices and techniques to which it recurs, belonging to three main dimensions: compromise, representation and language, analysing the critical sense in which they are used.
Keywords:
Realism, Brazilian literature, contemporary literature,, new realisms, literature and society
Rebolledo Dujisin, M. (2014). Eles eram muitos cavalos y las búsquedas del realismo actual. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (88). Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/36086
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