Floating reality in Insônia

Abstract

The early twentieth century marks historical events
around the world, producing deep changes in the
human sensibility. The vanguard and the modernist
literature were some theoretical manifestations
infl uenced by those changes. However, even though a
writer like Graciliano Ramos never had showed interest
for modernism - considering he was absolutely against
those tendencies- his short tales present many points of
comparison with vanguard manifest. This essay intends
to investigate how it was possible, considering the
eff ects of technologic advance like a phenomenological
and historical equalizer point of view.