O papel do narrador na construção do universo ficcional de O Lago Azul, de Fernando Campos

Abstract

The contiguity between fiction and reality exists since the beginning of literature. It came up with the first stories and never ceased to exist, having been manifested in different ways, over time. In the 19th century, the literary genre that emphasizes the relationship between history and fiction showed up: the historical novel. After a brief report on the tradition of the historical novel in the Portuguese and European literature, we analyze the eclectic narrator's status and how he exerts his unifying role in the narrative, keeping the reader captivated by the diegesis: How does he provide the information? Which facets does he assume? How does he organize the narrative? He is an eclectic narrator who never abandons the story and accompanies with affection his favorite characters. The intertextual memory is present all over the text: Camões, Pessoa, Fernão Lopes, Shakespeare, the Bible, ... The intertexts come up to enrich the narrative with references and suggestions left in the air, insinuating and asking the reader to do also his reading task, completing the writing one. On the other hand, the main existential memory is the Wind’s, extremely dynamic, not only because of his mobility, but also because he never lets us forget that he is practically ubiquitous and his memory goes far back into the distant past, providing the reader a dynamic and enchanting narrative.

Date of Award	2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	José Cândido de Oliveira Martins (Supervisor)