A century of fiction: literature versus communication

Authors

  • Juremir Machado da Silva Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.1999.10.3040

Keywords:

Communication, Literary theory, fiction

Abstract

Perfect Crime: Literary theory killed the author; The reader did not know. In a celebrated text, "Écrivains, intellectuels, professeurs," Roland Barthes summarized: "Language is not reduced to communication." In this phrase, the spurious heir of Russian formalism, lies the whole philosophy of literary obscurantism that would dominate the golden years of Criticism. Against a terrible poison - denotation - an even more deadly antidote was invented: the illegible as a criterion of superior aesthetic quality. At another time, Barthes, who later returned to the cult of elegance and clarity, said: "lived is banal and it is precisely this that the writer must fight."

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Author Biography

Juremir Machado da Silva, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Professor da Faculdade de Comunicação Social da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

References

BARTHES, Roland, Le degré zéro de l’écriture, Paris: Seuil, 1972.

______, Le bruissement de la langage — essais critiques IV. Paris: Seuil, 1984.

COMPAGNON, Antoine, Le démon de la théorie — littérature et sens commun. Paris: Seuil, 1998.

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Published

2008-04-10

How to Cite

da Silva, J. M. (2008). A century of fiction: literature versus communication. Revista FAMECOS, 6(10), 167–170. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.1999.10.3040

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 10 (1999)

Section

Criticism