Abstract
In contemporaneity, realism as a narrative form and approach is being quite commented on by the theory and the critics. In the Brazilian context, some specialized critics, when trying to delimit the contemporary, highlight realism in direct relation to the super exposition of violence, seen as one of the main themes of today. In that sense, expressions such as “brutalist” (BOSI, 2002) and “fierce realism” (CANDIDO, 2011), for example, brush the analyses of works that conjugate violence and realism. However, despite the profusion of narratives that are constructed upon this binomial, the proposition of this work is not to associate realism with marginality or violence. Through the reading of the novel Crow Blue, by Adriana Lisboa, published in 2010, we intend to work with the experience of what Schøllhammer identifies as “affective realism” (2002, 2004, 2011, 2013).
Keywords:
Brazilian literature; Contemporary novel; Realism; Affective realism; Adriana Lisboa