EXPERIENCE AND HISTORY IN EDMUND WHITE, BERNARDO CARVALHO AND MILTON HATOUM’S NARRATIVES

This article is a comparative study of three fictionists: Edmund White, Bernardo Carvalho and Milton Hatoum. We focus on the concepts of experience to investigate some modes of fictional constructions that allows us to say that a singular panorama of contemporary prose can be seen in a horizon where autobiography and history are key issues in the three authour’s poetics. Therefore literary theory will help us find theoretical paths towards what we name a poetics of mobility and closure at work in the fiction of these authours. Walter Benjamin, Phillipe Lejeune, Beatriz Sarlo and Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, amongst other thinkers, will guide theoretically our study.