Entre real e irreal: o narrador e as dimensões da intersubjetividade

Abstract

The narrative plunges deeply into the narrator, who stamps his mark on it. The relationship between the listener and the narrator is dominated by the wish of preserving the ideas and facts displayed – with the main concern of assuring the possibility of their future reproduction – function conferred to memory, human’s most ancient facility. The narrator is placed between wizards and scholars: he can give advice, based on his whole life experience, as well as that of others. With time the narrator acquires technical sophistication: he can use several resources, such as stream of consciousness, literary collage, the various narrative voices, among others, but he remains the same narrator as before. The narrator’s complete knowledge of the story is one of the most used technical resources: its effects on the reader are respect and surprise. The reader respects the narrator’s knowledge and is curious of the forthcomings. Henceforth the reader becomes dependent of the narrator, acquiring an attitude of subordination, as that of reading between the lines.