The Montage in eles eram muitos cavalos, by Luiz Ruffato: Conversations Between Film and Literature

Abstract

The paper aims at establishing connections between the fragmented narrative eles eram muitos cavalos, by Luiz Ruffato, and montage. Through cut and repetition, which, according to Agamben, may be necessary conditions to enable montage, the referred work by Ruffato places us on a tour of seventy fragments: the latter preceded by two black pages. Here it is possible to identify the affinity with the avant-garde cinema of the post-war, where there is the predominance of time-images (Deleuze),  which reveal their mediality: there is no longer an ulterior significance resulting from the collision of the statements. So eles eram muitos cavalos deconstructs reality and promotes repetition not as a return to the same, but as a possibility of what has been: means without end.