Balzac and the literature of complexity

• Autor(a) principal: Galeno, Alex
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Silva, Gustavo de Castro da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UnB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/44836
• topic: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850; Complexidade (Filosofia); Jornalismo

From a critique of journalistic practice, this article works on the hypothesis that the work of Honoré de Balzac approaches a literature of complexity, through the engendering of a network of characters, knowledge, plots and actions. Through primary and secondary literature review, we observed that Balzac recovers the etymological meaning of the word complexus “what weaves together” (MORIN, 1996). In our view, Balzac adopts a recursive, hologrammatic and knowledge reconnection methodology. Our analysis identifies communicational, aesthetic and literary aspects in the French author, and classifies him as a transdisciplinary artist-researcher, of diffuse poetic interest and endowed with immense imagination. Our conclusion suggests the need for further research between the communicational, literary and complexity fields.