Books and lives: crossing borders in Livro, by José Luís Peixoto, and Biografia involuntária dos amantes, by João Tordo

• Autor(a) principal: Amorim, Sílvia
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/25328
• topic: First-person narrative; Borders of fiction; Metalepsis; Paradox; Individual.; Narrativa na primeira pessoa; Fronteiras da ficção; Metalepse; Paradoxo; Indivíduo.

By reflecting on the concept of border in works by Portuguese authors who represent the new generation of writers – Livro (2010), by José Luís Peixoto, and Biografia involuntária dos amantes (2014), by João Tordo –, we wish to highlight some recent trends of the novel. We observe that the limits of the text are expanding, revealing the new position occupied by novels in our society and in readers’ personal lives. The hybridism (reality/fiction) characterizes the narrator in texts that deeply renew the first-person narrative. In our view, an intimate perception – with authentic value – of the world, society and history exposed in the text, reveals the unprecedented status of the individual in society and represents a significant trend of the contemporary novel.