Abstract:
This study – which introduces the writer Luiz Ruffato and his novel Eles eram muitos cavalos to a francophone public – assumes that this Brazilian writer employs postmodernists literary strategies without giving up a literature committed to the social problems of Brazil. Ruffato would be, therefore, a genuine example of post-modern social engagement, and, in this way, contradicts Marxist theorists, such as Frederic Jameson and Terry Eagleton, who see in the post-modernism the end of all ideologies. The paper begins examining the multiple forms of fragmentation of the text, what Ruffato believes to be a strategy of social complaint. Next, its looked at how the different narrative perspectives are used in certain fragments of the novel and how they allow one to situate the figure of the author in relation to their characters, in a way that Ruffato's ethics it is enunciated.
Keywords:
Luiz Ruffato; Eles eram muitos cavalos; Fragmentation; Engagement; Postmodernism