Filmic matrixes in the post-modern narrative of Caio Fernando Abreu

This book analyzes the relationship between Literature and Cinema, highlighting the interchange of procedures between these two forms of expression. It examines the way in which the nascent language of cinema borrowed many elements from literary art and today, on the other hand, literature appropriates cinematographic resources that allow it to apprehend and express with greater fidelity the world of the contemporary hurricane, strongly influenced by the image. In particular, it focuses on the incorporation of cinematographic procedures by contemporary narrative, highlighting the post-modern short story by Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996), whose narrative technique is characterized by a voracious desire for visuality and aspects of filmic narrative based on short stories by this author. The body, the writing and the visuality of Abreu’s work are the corpus, whose focus is on the tension between text and image, a dynamic cartography of the camera-gaze made of texts and read adrift.