Abstract

PREMAT, Julio. FIN DE LOS TIEMPOS, COMIENZOS DE LA LITERATURA. Eidos [online]. 2016, n.24, pp.104-123. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.24.7921.

This article considers the positions in literary production at an historic time characterized by a proliferation of apocalyptic discourse. Taking into account specific contemporary conceptions of time, how does one think about literature and the strategies for "beginning"? After a review of various critical approaches about "la fin de la littérature" in French criticism, or the incompleteness of literature in cultural critique, we propose an examination of the characteristics of the authors' responses to or their resistance to this proliferation. Genealogies, visioning the past as novelty, voluntary anachronism, inversion or regression in the face of the obsession of memory are, for example, some of the possibilities. In all of these there would seem to be a defense of literary work in light of the degraded perception of its collective function and its capacities for talking about society.

Keywords : contemporary; literature; beginnings; literary criticism.

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