O irrepresentável em Harmada, de João Gilberto Noll

Abstract

The article addressesaspects of Brazilian fiction produced since the 80’s, referring specially to Har-mada, a novel by João Gilberto Noll. The ensigns of the shake, misplacement, cataclysm and ear-thquake are related to an object produced by the incidence of the products of science, the advent of technique and the mass massacre: the ruin. This object would have the particularity to show what could not be captured by representation and by sense. The proposition is that Harmada decons-tructs, in its form, the imaginary unit of the narrative structure, and in this procedure, makes a correlative emptiness of the subject itself emerge. An emptiness that refers to what, in a work of art, constitutes its real core.