Os mortos de línguas cortadas – ficção e realidade em Nove noites, de Bernardo Carvalho

Abstract

The novel Nove noites, by Bernardo Carvalho, interlaces death and writing in an intriguing narrative, evidencing the tenuous limits between reality and fiction. The journalist that narrates the story looks for the actual facts obstinately, but from a certain moment on, he realizes that reality menaces fiction, despite the reader’s expectations that truth be revealed. The writing, however, goes on uncertain, unsettled, driven by non-reliable narrators, hesitant among truth and lie, real and fiction, ending in the question of death as.