A narradora e as perspectivas do narrar em Relato de um certo oriente, de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

It is about a narratological analysis of the first novel published by Milton Hatoum, Tale of a certain Orient (1989). The second most studied novel by the author has a wide reception already, but the presence of certain gaps and repeated readings in the critic’s speech point to the need of a detailed analysis on the literary text as a whole. Furthermore, the translation activities of the Research Group ANA – Amazonia Antropocene narratology – from which the author of this study is a member, contributed to the identification of theoretical and methodological bases which would be useful to this study. While translating the book Narratology: an introduction (2010) and Elemente der Narratologie (2014) (revised and updated German version) by Wolf Schmid, the key concepts of Narratology were studied and accepted in the analysis of the literary text. The present doctoral thesis sought to answer questions that remained unanswered about the novel from the narratological point of view: based on one analysis of the text, how did the narrator organize “the stories'' of the characters? What kind of narrator can we identify in the novel? How may the results of a narratological analysis be useful to an interpretation of the work? The narratological analysis provided a more refined observation on the phenomena present in the text and revealed, through analytical procedures, how productive the study of this text can be when its reading is based on one theory which its goal is to present a model of analysis.