Maria dos Canos Serrados (2013), de Ricardo Adolfo, e a recriação pulp do real

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Natália Ubirajara
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Matraga (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/58437
• topic: Portuguese literature; Realism; Novel; Ricardo Adolfo.; Literatura portuguesa; Realismo; Romance; Ricardo Adolfo.

This article analyses the novel Maria dos Canos Serrados (2013), by Ricardo Adolfo, aiming to understand the ways realism presents itself in 21st century’s Portuguese fiction. One perceives a change of meaning of the term realism in the scope of Portuguese literature, understood as a portrait of reality (in the 19th century), as an activist questioning of reality (with neorealism, in the 20th century) and as a resource in favor of the novel’s narrativity (21st century). Characterized by the dynamic rhythm that befits a cinematographic narrative and making use of space, denomination (according to Cassirer) and narrative implausibility (according to Santo Agostinho and Todorov), Ricardo Adolfo’s work presents the current diseases of society, in a social realism and pulp aesthetics that stand apart from the main strands of contemporary Portuguese novel.