Transgredindo a norma: um estudo comparativo de “Perdido no túnel do terror” de John Barth, “Anotações sobre macedonio num diário”, de Ricardo Piglia e “Tema del traidor y del héroe”, de Jorge Luis Borges

Abstract

This essay deals with the question of the transgression of contemporary authors regarding the strict literary norms of the literary genres still in use for the analysis and interpretation of the literary work. With the birth of new writings, one observes a gradual exhaustion of the closed works, producing a stronger trend for the overlapping of genres where an essay and a poem get mixed, and the novel presents characteristics of narcisitic narrative. In order to illustrate this work, three contemporary authors whose narratives presented such trend were selected such as John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges and Ricardo Piglia. The stories selected present a subtle irony that demands from the readers a new viewpoint facing the literary text where the writing blends with play. For that reason, the characters of the three narratives present an ambiguity that runs throughout the text, offering multiple readings to the reader.