Fiction and reality or literature and society: borderlines

Abstract

This paper aims to deepen the meaning of Peter Sloterdijk’s statement according to which humanism fails as a school of human development through literature, postulating, therefore, the end of the utopia of human development through literature, which supposedly promotes resignation from reading and writing. To this end, interests the fact of the concept of literature proposed by Sloterdijk as a community subjacent to humanism is consistent with the concept of literature proposed in Brazil by Antonio Candido, considering that Sloterdijk suggests thinking humanism as a society similar to the literary academies mentioned by Candido as Brazilian literature formers, and literature as communicative means to humans form themselves.