abstract
The work of André Carneiro is one of the fundamental branches of “GRD Generation”, the first Brazilian science fiction movement. Both in his fictions and essays, Carneiro proposes an idea on genre according to which the literary exercise is pushed to a limit, questioning the assertions about literary autonomy. Based on a corpus that includes different emblematic texts from his narrative, it is analyzed how the author proposes literary ontologies that he formulates by building an epistemological core that gathers concepts typical of hypnosis practices (taken from his divulgation texts) or belonging to Parapsychology and Quantum mechanics. In this regard, Carneiro’s final proposal seems to be oriented towards building, under the influence of an epistemological syncretism that gathers the paradigms above, a singular realistic model.
Keywords:
André Carneiro; science fiction; boundaries of literature; literary autonomy; hypnosis; parapsychology; quantum mechanics; realism