HISTORIES OF INFAMY: FROM BORGES TO FOUCAULT

Authors

  • Kelvin Falcão Klein Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2010v15n1p192

Abstract

Starting from the writings of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Jorge Luis Borges, especially those dedicated to the theme of infamy, this essay investigates the course of this significant, infamy, both in criticism and in fiction, focusing especially on the political connotations of the term . The hypothesis is that the infamy appears in the texts as a vantage point for the observation of cracks in the building of contemporary cultural archive, as it undermines the possibility of a triumphalist discourse of history. In the instance of infamy history is always plural.

 

Author Biography

Kelvin Falcão Klein, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC

Mestre em Literatura Comparada pela UFRGS. Doutorando em Teoria Literária na UFSC.

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Published

2010-07-16

How to Cite

KLEIN, Kelvin Falcão. HISTORIES OF INFAMY: FROM BORGES TO FOUCAULT. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 15, n. 1, p. 192–207, 2010. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2010v15n1p192. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2010v15n1p192. Acesso em: 4 feb. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Essays

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