Agora é que são elas

a novel in check

Abstract

The paper analyzes the novel Agora é que são elas, by Paulo Leminski, taking as its starting point the idea that the author would be impossible to write a novel in the traditional ways in the twentieth century. To Leminski, the great novelists of the last century, as Joyce and Kafka, born in the nineteenth century and were formed before the First World War, so their production would agree with the nineteenth-century creative principles. Thus, the paper investigates the Agora é que são elas, framing it in both the “Tunnel Theory” by Julio Cortazar, who says that some writers destroy traditional literary forms to build its own language, as the reflections on the “Invertebrate Language”, by Reinaldo Laddaga, which uses the image of the bones as a metaphor for creative stiffness.