The impossibility of death in literature: Lygia Fagundes Telles and Maurice Blanchot
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death, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Maurice BlanchotAbstract
Based on the short story “Natal na barca” by Lygia Fagundes Telles, this article analyzes the perspective of the impossibility of death in three short stories (“As formigas”, “Anão de jardim” and “Venha ver o pôr-do-sol”) as well as in two novels (Ciranda de Pedra and As meninas) by the same author. In dialogue with the texts of Lygia, the French author Maurice Blanchot offers us a theoretical basis for this article, since his ideas of the impossibility of death in literature are prolific throughout his essays, such as, O espaço literário and A parte do fogo.
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