Formas breves: pensando os limites

Abstract

This study starts from the problematizations about the classification and nomenclature of the fictional literary production of short texts, commonly called microfiction, to discuss the trajectory and insertion of the format in the Brazilian Literature. The universe of microfiction, like other literary forms, is far from uniform; Its force is precisely in the inventiveness that the format allows and in the antagonistic and elastic movement that expands its field of study: sometimes it wants the minimum limit, the phrase, the aphorism, sometimes it extends until almost to be confused with the contemporary tale format. This tendency to the minimum can also be seen as a necessity of language, adequate form for a matter that points to the unfinished, to the speed of the contemporary and to the work open to the readings. We aim, in this sense, to think about a poetic of the minimum, in the frontier genders of the format, in a genealogy of the brevity in the Brazilian Literature and in the issues of editorial and reception of these brief forms