A poética da simplicidade: os menores contos de Luiz Vilela

Abstract

Study of the narrative technique employed by Luiz Vilela in the construction of tales of small extension. Narrative short par excellence, the short story is one method that press for conciseness and brevity. In short stories by extension, the notion of brevity and conciseness is taken to extremes, requiring the writer an exact notion of such production. In considering how to give the process of conciseness and brevity in the lower stories of the writer mining, through considerations of Italo Calvino, Leyla Perrone-Moisés, Julio Cortazar and Ricardo Piglia, discusses it, too, the relationship between the simplicity and not stories told in eight selected: "Lembrança", "A única alegria", "Dois homens"; "Em dezembro"; "Ao nascer do dia", "As formigas", "Deus sabe o que faz" and "Ninguém.