abstract
This article examines two literary works by the writer, visual artist and educator Laura Erber, exploring the coexistence in her writing of certain trends of post-modern Brazilian literature, such as hybrid textual genres, inter-artistic dialogues, the foregrounding of a metafictional dimension, or new ways of writing the self and of the literary theme of travel. This essay therefore starts with an analysis of Bénédicte vê o mar (2011), a short, graphic, poetic romance, or rather graphic book of verse, and Esquilos de Pavlov (2013), an atypical “artist’s romance”. These two works are endowed with an admirable freedom of expression and a deep understanding of the challenges that contemporary literary writing faces. These facets, in turn, serve to generate a critical interrogation that intertwines two themes: being and artistic creation. This article therefore examines how the crisis of contemporary art: in literature, film and the visual arts - allows the author to establish a cultural dialogue that transcends the boundaries of the national to encompass a broader context.
Keywords:
postmodern literature; hybridity; inter-art; Laura Erber