Images and shadows of experience: poetic and religious forms in capitalism

Abstract

This article aims to show the relationships between poetic and religious forms as the basis of narrative crisis, warned
by Walter Benjamin in advanced capitalism. From the poetics of Tanizaki, Mishima, Kawabata, Baudelaire and others mentioned in the text, we tried to illustrate the background of the thought of images, in the varied and complex construction of forms, while taking a stand against the advance of capitalism as a religion. The crisis of experience, therefore, establishes a fundamental question linked to modernity and the transformation of community ways of life – that affected several countries and traditions –, as an articulation of the ambivalence in the openings and
closures of meaning that literature develops in its contents and aesthetic resources.