The Brazilian short stories of the Jabuti Prize and its narrative veins

Abstract

This exposition is based on an inventory and critical judgement of around 610 short stories that make up the 33 Jabuti Prize finalists in Brazil, between 1999 and 2008. From the amount of values narrated in the short stories, we learn about specific fictional traces involved with violence, memory and humor, which we define as narrative sets, thus qualified as they manifest themselves through invariants comparable between themselves and having the same order of magnitude. The idea of a narrative set has allowed us to comment on predominant ideas, which constitute converging ties – stable knowledge structures with textual, authorship measures.