Malaise in contemporary Brazilian literature

Abstract

We comparatively analyze Brazilian literature in the 1990s and in the 2010s, stressing the ways we can distinguish their narratives of suffering. We arrange these narratives in two groups: suffering through an excess of unproductive experiences of determination and suffering through a lack of productive experiences of indetermination, thus translating the dialectics between truth and reality from Lacanian psychoanalysis. We propose a model based on transformative series, taking into account the destinies of trauma associated with the military-civil dictatorship and the return of social violence in the 2010s.