[pt] O objetivo da tese é analisar na prosa contemporânea, dentro das propostas realistas que têm sido recorrentes na literatura brasileira, uma vertente que vem sendo denominada como realismo íntimo. A hipótese é de que autores cujas obras se inscrevem dentro dessa linha de força que vem se apresentando na novíssima literatura brasileira, como Daniel Galera e Carol Bensimon, buscam possibilidades de escrita que vão além da representação e descrição de espaços, situações e indivíduos, almejando a construção de uma narração e ambientação que transcenda a simples simulação de uma realidade física, usando, para tanto, estratégias distintas, que fazem com que o exterior atue, ao mesmo tempo, como reflexo interior e elemento revelador do universo íntimo dos personagens. No realismo íntimo, é a intimidade que constrói os cenários e, simultaneamente, é a partir do contato com o fora que se desvela o interior desses personagens. A partir da leitura e análise dos textos de ficção e de dispositivos teóricos tão contemporâneos quanto as próprias obras literárias em questão, o que se pretende é compreender as estratégias narrativas utilizadas, analisando de que modo o realismo íntimo se aproxima ou se distancia de outras abordagens relacionadas a uma (im)possível representação da realidade, assim como investigar sua correlação com a tradição realista que pode ser identificada em diferentes momentos da literatura brasileira. / [en] The aim of this thesis is to investigate in the contemporary prose, within the realistic proposals that have been recurrent in the Brazilian literature, a field that has been called intimate realism. The hypothesis is that authors whose works fit within this line of force that has been presented in the latest Brazilian literature, such as Daniel Galera and Carol Bensimon, seek possibilities of writing which go beyond the representation and description of spaces, situations and individuals, aiming the development of realistic narrative and setting, transcending the simple simulation of a physical reality, using different strategies to achieve this – strategies which make possible that the exterior operate at the same time as a reflection of the interior and a revealing element of the inner universe of the characters. The intimate realism is the one in which intimacy builds the scenarios and the contact with the outside world reveals the interior of the characters. From the reading and analysis of the texts of fiction and theoretical devices as contemporary as the literary works in question, the objective is to understand the narrative strategies used, analyzing how intimate realism approaches or distances itself from other approaches related to a(n) (im)possible representation of reality, as well as to investigate its correlation with the realistic tradition that can be identified in different moments throughout Brazilian literature.

The diploma thesis consists of a series of events by the art duo NEWkus. The NEWkus art duo deals with the transformation of relationships and the overall definition of the NEWkus body concept. It copes with the isolation caused by the coronavirus pandemic as well as with the apathy caused by the monotonous lifestyle in an enclosed space with the same person and the impossibility of meeting within the NEWkus duo. Thanks to a series of events in the home environment, the group is aware of its own existence on a much wider scale, it finds that it is not only two-member, that its structure is more extensive. The series of realized events is built on the borders of social, artistic experiment and intimate realism. The whole experience is screened in a single space, as part of the NEWkus Days festival. The space is defined by an object inspired by a screen, the internal environment of which is adapted to the image and the needs of both authors. The spectator is thus allowed to meet the story, which will be presented from many angles during the festival and will provide the opportunity to blend with the body of NEWkus in real time and space.