Melhor não contar, de Tatiana Salem Levy: provocations from an unspecific literary art

Abstract

This text, based on bibliographical research, discusses the novel Melhor não contar (2024), by Tatiana Salem Levy, with the aim of debating how it challenges the more traditional instances of literary legitimization. In this sense, two questions are addressed: the way in which women's writing is signified in the novel, as a performance and personification of the woman who writes and describe herself; and the presence of the theme of harassment and sexual violence in the family environment and beyond, marking the permanent condition of violence that is perpetuated from generation to generation. Woven through the irregular threads of a labyrinthine style of writing, the novel is situated in the inside-outside of genre, fiction, reality, the public, the private, literature and the world at the same time, bringing together diverse elements, sometimes disparate, in (counter)flows of provocations around the literary.