The temptation to recount: fantasized forms and the urge to write in contemporary narrative

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p347-371

Keywords:

story, fantasy, contemporary narrative, desire of writing

Abstract

I analyze how certain fantasies about story in literature are associated with writing, in contemporary narrative, through an investment towards structural indeterminations, wandering form and a sprawl of literary text as cognitive form. For that approach, the study dialogues with several Latin American narratives post-1990, focusing on Bellatin’s Shiki Nagaoka: una nariz de ficción, Bolaño’s 2666 and Faciolince’s El olvido que seremos.

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  • Wanderlan Alves, State University of Paraíba

    Doutor em Letras (UNESP/SJRP). Professor de Literatura Hispano-americana da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, onde também atua no Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura e Interculturalidade (PPGLI/UEPB). Membro da ABH e da LASA.

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Published

2019-06-19

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No. 17 (2019): (jan-jun 2019) Dossiê: Escrituras Interferidas

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Dossiê (Interferências)

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ALVES, Wanderlan. The temptation to recount: fantasized forms and the urge to write in contemporary narrative. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 17, p. 347–371, 2019. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p347-371. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/159135. Acesso em: 6 feb. 2026.