Timénova, ZlatkaTimenova, Maya2012-03-212012-03-2120061646-3730http://hdl.handle.net/10437/1949Babilónia: Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e TraduçãoThe paper studies the concept of limit in literary discourse. Two aspects are discussed: 1) the limit as a necessary structuring element in the process of verbal nomination; 2) the limit as a verbal constraint which appeals to be defeated in case of extreme experience, as death, love, desire, Shoah. We analyse two examples dealing with the language restriction in the literary practice: Montaignes’ essays and Duras’ novels. Montaigne adopts a specific style of unlimited judgements and topics accumulation in a spontaneous order and logic with the purpose of revealing the deepest profile of human nature. Duras practices a minimalist writing that ruins the linear syntactic structure and the narrative model, achieving an effect of silence thus providing the possibility of unlimited meaning.application/pdffraopenAccessLINGUÍSTICALITERATURA FRANCESATEORIA DA LITERATURALINGUISTICSFRENCH LITERATURELITERARY THEORYANÁLISE LITERÁRIALITERARY ANALYSISarticle