The history of literature exhausted: Vila-Matas and the world literature

Abstract

The literary history have been thinking about its methods in order to reach new forms for organize its object. One possibility came from the literary historiography through literature itself: the esthetic learning of history. Join this, the concept of “world literature” (form Goethe to Franco Moretti) and the work of Enrique Vila-Matas (whom creates a literary history inside his fiction) can help in the goal of to comprehend the contemporary models of literary history and its exhaustion.