The aim of this thesis is to investigate in the contemporary prose, within the realistic proposals that have been recurrent in the Brazilian literature, a field that has been called intimate realism. The hypothesis is that authors whose works fit within this line of force that has been presented in the latest Brazilian literature, such as Daniel Galera and Carol Bensimon, seek possibilities of writing which go beyond the representation and description of spaces, situations and individuals, aiming the development of realistic narrative and setting, transcending the simple simulation of a physical reality, using different strategies to achieve this – strategies which make possible that the exterior operate at the same time as a reflection of the interior and a revealing element of the inner universe of the characters. The intimate realism is the one in which intimacy builds the scenarios and the contact with the outside world reveals the interior of the characters. From the reading and analysis of the texts of fiction and theoretical devices as contemporary as the literary works in question, the objective is to understand the narrative strategies used, analyzing how intimate realism approaches or distances itself from other approaches related to a(n) (im)possible representation of reality, as well as to investigate its correlation with the realistic tradition that can be identified in different moments throughout Brazilian literature.