A GUIDED FORTUNE TELLER: THE ROLE OF THE NARRATOR IN THE SHORT STORY BY MACHADO DE ASSIS (2002)
Abstract
In A cartomante (2002), Machado de Assis presents a case of adultery involving two friends, Camilo and Vilela, and the latter’s wife. In this context, this essay aims to highlight, based on the methodological assumptions of narratology, the path through which the narrator of A cartomante introduces and leads the narrator to knowledge of the plot. To this end, we seek to identify and analyze the constitutive resources of the narrative, starting from the assumption that the narration of the story under analysis presents formal particularities that aim to induce the narrator to a position governed by the narrator’s own set of moral and ideological values. We believe that this positioning of the narrator follows a narrative strategy proposed by Machado de Assis, which is carried out in a similar way to the idea of diegesis, that is, the problematization of the capacity for persuasion that governs human relationships.
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