Literatura, história e comunicação de massas: o entrelugar dos discursos

Abstract

Both the literary and the mass communication languages have their specific configurations and are ruled by their own laws since they have different purposes. As the first one registers the poetic and for that transcends objectivity, the second one tries never to leave the domain of pure objectivity seeking immediate communication, with immediate effects, which are never rooted in the construction of the imaginary. On the other hand, under the New Historiography perspective, discourses are plenty of omissions which confront the historian with the impossibility of his idea of recovering or retelling everything that took place in time. The frontiers between the literary, the historical, and the communicational discourses are more and more blurred every day, deprived as they are of the delimiting lines between fact and fiction.