A nuvem pressentida: a literatura do futuro na crônica de Moreira Campos

Abstract

From five strata of Moreira Campos’ chronicle, it is developed a reflection on the restlessness of the chronicler about the imminent - and now current – change of reader paradigm. The chronicler is reflective and has a writing method characterized by contemplation and by immersion in various themes, attitudes rare today in a world accelerated by computerized culture. It has not escaped to the chronicler the perception of youth’s disinterest for reading and the technology isolation in relation to humanism, a fact that seems to outline the emergence of a new elite: the readers. For him, the speed of modern life (or already postmodern) would shape the literature of the time. However, this speed finds resistance, like the Slow Movement, which seeks to recover human values threatened by coercion left by the technological revolution.