abstract: This research aims to develop a narration theory based on Argentinian writer Juan José Saer’s (1937-2005) four collections of essays: El río sin orillas (The River Without Banks) (1991) —which is thought by critics to be the Facundo of the 20th century—, El concepto de ficción (The Concept of Fiction) (1995), La narración-objeto (The Narrative Object) (1999) and Trabajos (Works) (2005). His essays examine the Latin American novel from 1960 to 2000, in other words, from the founding of the modern novel during the Latin American boom to its establishment as the most commercial genre upon the arrival of neoliberalism in Latin America in the 1990’s. Saer not only questions the novel in literary terms, but also contextually: from its relationship to politics and the Cuban Revolution and the years of literary compromise à la Sarte and the historical novel’s insurgency as the favored genre that settled the region’s past and present in the 1980’s to the conception of the genre as a commodity as large transnational entertainment consortia purchased all publishers. Within this context, Saer simultaneously critiques and formulates a theory on narration to oppose the novel. He presents narration as a continuation of a wasted and formulaic genre such as the historical novel. He juxtaposes the “real” to realism, ponders the impossibility of the historical novel, defends and rehabilitates the French noveau roman, which was much vilified by authors of the boom, demystifies Borges’ reading of the Argentinian tradition and at the same time confronts it with Witold Gombrowicz. He removes literature from the bonds of nationalism and Latin Americanism and contrasts Sartre’s ideas with German philosopher Theodore W. Adorno’s proposals about the novel during the cultural industry era. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Spanish 2015

Une idée particulière de littérature est née au cours des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, période qui coïncide avec la naissance du genre romanesque moderne. L’idée de roman moderne issue de ces transformations à cette époque-là configure un champ virtuel de caractéristiques qui a marqué aussi bien la théorie littéraire du XXe siècle que la production de textes. Cette recherche pose la question de la vitalité de cette idée de roman moderne et, par voie de conséquence, de la notion de littérature qu’elle suppose. Nous proposons donc une étude de l’idée de roman au sein des poétiques de trois auteurs hispano-américains contemporains : Juan José Saer, Ricardo Piglia et Roberto Bolaño. Cette étude tient compte autant d’aspects théoriques que formels et se concentre sur les essais et les entretiens des auteurs, ainsi que sur trois romans : La grande, La ciudad ausente et 2666. Nous postulons ainsi une lecture comparée à partir de l’indétermination, du rapport à l’expérience et de la réflexivité, considérés comme traits principaux de l’idée de roman moderne, ainsi qu’une analyse des trois romans à partir de leurs formes narratives, réflexives et hybrides. / A particular idea of literature was born during the 18th and 19th centuries, a period that corresponds with the rise of the modern novel genre. The idea of the modern novel, which came about during this time period, constitutes a virtual field of characteristics that has left its mark on both 20th century literary theory and on textual production. This research questions the vitality of this particular idea of the modern novel and, therefore, of the notion of literature it withholds. Our aim then, is to study the idea of the novel as it is expressed in the poetics of three contemporary Latin American writers: Juan José Saer, Ricardo Piglia and Roberto Bolaño. This study considers theoretical aspects as well as formal ones, focusing on essays and interviews of the three authors, as well as on three novels: La grande, La ciudad ausente and 2666.It presents a comparative reading of these poetics according to three main concepts: indetermination, relation to experience and reflexivity, which we think to be central to the idea of the modern novel. In addition, this study analyzes the three novels in terms of their narrative, reflexive and hybrid forms.

Submitted by Marta Toyoda (1144061@mackenzie.br) on 2017-01-17T14:50:26Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Cristhiano Motta Aguiar.pdf: 2008325 bytes, checksum: 48f09e4cfb011ba8d2795c1bdfc5e582 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Aline Amarante (1146629@mackenzie.br) on 2017-02-07T21:12:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Cristhiano Motta Aguiar.pdf: 2008325 bytes, checksum: 48f09e4cfb011ba8d2795c1bdfc5e582 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-07T21:12:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Cristhiano Motta Aguiar.pdf: 2008325 bytes, checksum: 48f09e4cfb011ba8d2795c1bdfc5e582 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / 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. / Este trabalho objetiva analisar os romances Cinzas do Norte, de Milton Hatoum, e Nadie Nada Nunca, de Juan José Saer, a partir da categoria narrativa do espaço. Ao longo do trabalho, propõe-se realizar também uma revisão crítica da história da ideia de espaço nas ciências humanas e em especial na História da Literatura e na Teoria da Literatura. Em nossa leitura comparada sobre Hatoum e Saer, as seguintes questões são suscitadas: produção literária na região amazônica e na região do Río de la Plata; produção e desprodução do espaço social; literatura contemporânea na Argentina e no Brasil; diálogo entre literatura e artes visuais na representação do espaço narrativo; recepção crítica das obras estudadas; ditaduras militar argentina e brasileira como pano de fundo político dos dois romances analisados.