WHY TO THINK SPACE? IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE WITHOUT EXISTING?
Marise Gândara Lourenço | 16-25
ABSTRACT: we propose to discuss spatiality in fiction departing from O lugar teórico do espaço ficcional nos estudos literários by Marisa Martins Gama-Khalil (2010). In proceeding that way we highlight the importance of that text as an instrument to propel the verticalization of the studies on this narrative element, enabling us at the same time to investigate the relation between space and time in both real and fictional spaces. Our proposal is constituted by a dialogue between texts that ruptures in a continuum, even if temporary, in consonance with the notion of exotopy by Bakhtin (2006). This concept sustains itself on the dialogical character, allowing us to reveal the differences and tensions between the texts under discussion, that way achieving better understanding of the theoretical position of space. Throughout our writing we gradually present plausible answers (be them affirmative or interrogative) to propel thought towards the first section of our title, i.e.: why to think space? At the end of our theoretical periplus we perceive that the fact that man creates things and objects, that he generates himself while being finite leads us to interpret being, which is provisional and thoroughly pervaded by uncertainties, as the condition of existing.
KEYWORDS: fictional Space; Time; Movement; Literary Studies.
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