Companhia subterrânea: notas de um último leitor acerca da literatura do Não

Abstract

This work adopts as a theoretical basis, a perspective developed from the examination of certain ideas present in the fictional work of Enrique Vila-Matas - presented in his novels Bartleby & Co. ("the Non-writing", "negative pulse of contemporary literature", "withdrawal and literary mutism, "renunciation of writing") and Montano s Malady ("literary disease", "sick of literature", "literatose") - and in essayist of Ricardo Piglia, in "The last reader" ("last reader", "the addicted reader, who cannot stop reading", the reader for "reading is not just a practice, but a way of life", "the reader as the personification of literature"). From these ideas, this thesis speculates on the relationship between writing of Machado de Assis, the universe of Franz Kafka and the work of Murilo Rubião. It was adopted as a methodology comparative reading of these authors, highlighting the stories of Murilo Rubião, and some of the writers read by the three novelists