Cinema traces in Caio Fernando Abreu’s urban literary web

Abstract

The goal is to verify how the traces of the cinema are woven in the literary threads of the novel “Through the night”, by Caio Fernando Abreu, and the reason why its characters face the world as if it were cinema. Would it reflect the very conversion of the world into cinema and/or simulacra traces, which also includes other links of the cultural industry? Would they be reflexes of an urban experience seen as moving screens, as a result of experiences mediated by windows and windshields, as if they were camera lenses? The novel is the starting point for rethinking how much the cultural industry has been changing human behavior, establishing new relations between subject, material world and apparatus for the technical reproducibility of images.