abstract
If one considers the extensive bibliography on the novel, it's impossible not to acknowledge that the instability of its form is a characteristic trait of the genre. I would like to take advantage of this element to discuss more thoroughly the hypothesis that some contemporary literary texts represent, so to speak, a new turn in the genre, suggesting innovative ways of both creating and consuming narratives nowadays, and indicating once more a refashioning of the genre's boundaries. My reflections take as their theoretical foundation the notion of "non-creative writing", as advanced by Kenneth Goldsmith (2011) that, I believe, lays the groundwork for a reflection about the practices of appropriation of other texts at play in some contemporary Brazilian narratives -- for instance, in Opsanie Swiata, by Verônica Stigger, and Sujeito oculto, by Cristiane Costa. The essay proposes that such refashioning provokes a redimensioning of the values we usually apply to the notions of literary work, of originality, and of the very concept of literature.
Keywords:
non creative writing; novel; form; Verônica Stigger; Cristiane Costa