JOÃO GILBERTO NOLL: A CONTEMPORARY OF OUR SPECULAR VERTIGO

Abstract

This study aims to indicate João Gilberto Noll as a fundamental writer to think about the 21^st century literature, specifically in the novel Lorde (2004). Using an indissociable language between prose and poetry, the writer is a contemporary in creating narratives at the margins of the demand of the editorial scene and narrating with "his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light but rather its darkness" (Agamben, 2009). The hypothesis of literary contemporaneity is that, with Lorde, it is possible to establish an approximation with the exile, the outcome, the transience, the melancholy of our times – as well as that of literature. Far from consumption, from submission to the “no holds barred” of happiness as a goal, the protagonist is fragile, insecure and lonely. The contemporaneity in João Gilberto Noll is in a literature that does not make things easy, is not “productive”, but is potent in confronting, threatening and showing deteriorating “identities” in the images of a mirror that this literature portrays.