ESPAÇO URBANO E VIOLÊNCIA NA NARRATIVA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORÂNEA

The purpose of this article and visualize that the space represented in contemporary Brazilian literature is predominantly urban. Thus, this study examines some of the relationships between space and violence in contemporary Brazilian narrative by the fact that our literature has followed a migration process, assuming, therefore, a predominantly urban area. Thus, through a mould several of narrative and analysis emanating, we find that the contemporary Brazilian literature demonstrate a growing city, indicating that the relationship between urban experience and literature, in modernity, become more radical and forceful .

"SÃO PAULO-SAMPA-SP": THE MULTIPLE FACES OF THE METROPOLIS

The city is a symbol of human sociability , meeting place and common life - and in this sense , their model is the Greek polis . But it is also a symbol of human diversity , in which masses of people live who do not know , do not recognize or even hostile to , and here the model is not the Greek city , but Babel. The perceptions of the city built in songs and literary texts are in agreement with the adjectives that easily come to mind when one thinks of São Paulo: bumpy, sprawling, dizzying. São Paulo does not provoke admiration, as elsewhere - at least not in the word admiration is benign and gentle . Causes astonishment, this feeling that overcomes the admiration in fright - a result of gigantism, the omnipresent sense of urgency, the unsettling awareness of being in an urban labyrinth that extends to infinity. This research aims to highlight that forms the largest Brazilian metropolis is described both in music and Brazilian literature , at which point it will be possible to establish directions for the different readings of urban space.