A Trap (for Lamartine): Critique of Ontology from the Literature

Abstract

This work tries to rehearse a critique towards the fundamental ontology in Brazilian literature, focusing on the novel written by Carlos Sussekind, Trap for Lamartine (1975) and to point out at another novel by same author, What do you think he did (1994), whose publications distanced themselves about 20 years in time. These novels, which can be understood as discontinuous continuation of one another, are offered here as time, space and matter for the crisis and criticism of the metaphysics of presence, the representational tradition and the logic of authenticity, whose concepts make up the ontological cunning constructions, which were absolute for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.