Narrar um lugar : espaço ficcional e sua problematização em Cinzas do norte, de Milton Hatoum, e Nadie nada nunca, de Juan José Saer

Abstract

This work aims to analyze Cinzas do Norte, by Milton Hatoum, and Nadie Nada Nunca, by Juan José Saer, regarding narrative space. Throughout the work, it also proposes to perform a critical review about space as a historical category in the humanities and especially in the History of Literature and Literary Theory. In our comparative reading about Hatoum and Saer, the following questions arise: literary production in the Amazon region and in the Río de la Plata region; deproduction and production of social space; Brazilian and Argentine contemporary literature; dialogue between literature and visual arts when narrative space is represented; reader response towards Cinzas do Norte and Nadie Nada Nunca; Argentine and Brazilian military dictatorships as political background of Hatoum and Saer’s novels.