Traces and rests: the possible reality in J. G. Noll

Abstract

João Gilberto Noll’s literary project can be understood by the sign of dissolution. His novels, characterized by concision and episodic plots that are sustained by a line of causality, keep in check the narrative instances that establish the link between real and fiction: the historical or familiar perception of time and the delimitation of space – objective or subjective space. Noll’s characters are non-situated beings, which are also emptiness of experience. What they live do not convert into knowledge and conscience of being in the world in spite their introduction into a frenetic succession of happenings. This work proposes an analysis of the novel Rastros do verão, published in 1986, observing the way by which its fictional traces can be considered as a new model of representation of real in fiction, and also asking if these traces put together an individual stile and a post-modern perception of reality.