We get used to everything: the limits of contemporary fiction

There are many approaches that help us to understand the contemporary. The contemporary fiction itself has been increasingly researched and analyzed in the field of literature and therefore it has gained new forms and new perspectives within the research universe. Places, experiences, memories and narratives have increased the ways of reading and analyze this kind of fiction, building quite significant possibilities, especially with regard to literature and the representational game that involves it. In the last years, many texts and literary productions appeared with the aim of questioning, denouncing, recognizing or simply, analyzing the place of this kind of fiction in the contemporary time. This article proposes a ride through the fictional narrative by reading three chronicles published in the book A gente se acostuma a tudo, by Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, from elements that are recognized in everyday experiences and that allow a change among the author, the narrator and the reader. The purpose of this article is to analyze the role of this fiction inserted in contemporaneity, highlighting traces that materialize in memory, representation and identities, using as theoretical basis authors such as Agamben (2009), Benjamin (1994), Ricouer (2007).