The history's eye: fiction and decay in Bernardo de Carvalho's work

Emphasizing the perspectives of Dominique Maingueneau, to whom what is stated and the way it is said, text and context are not dissociable; also focusing on Walter Benjamin's philosophical reflection on the concept of history; and, finally, on the reading of the novel Nove noites, by Bernardo Carvalho, this article aims at analyzing the constitutive aspects of the scenes of enunciation in contemporary Brazilian fiction. Therefore, we will examine the bases on which the deconstruction of the traditional boarders that link Literature and History to the opposition between work of art and society in a conflicting literary field. Thus, we propose a kind of reading of Nove noites, at the same time, that understands the so-called contemporary age as a stage in which the tensions between discourse analysis and the classical approaches in literature are enacted.