Letter to crazy: a modern epic narrative

Abstract

Carta aos loucos, Carlos Nejar’s romance, is an allegoric narrative in which the
author, inspired on the tradition of Homero’ s classical narrative, and making
use of the parodist resource creates a new epic, based not on the relating of the
already happened, but on the questioning, revealing a post-modern critical
conscience. The esayist tries to elevate the ways by which the narrator dares
new literary paradigms, recreating the classical mithology towards the binomial
Time versus Word and to show how, enriched by the dinamic convenience on
prose and poetry, the romance is an apology to “Verb”, a thesis shared by the
contemporaneous fictionists.