Traces of postmodern narrator: Ninguém nada nunca and O escritor morre à beira do rio

Abstract

This comparative study between the work Ninguém nada nunca, by Juan José Saer, and O escritor morre à beira do rio, by Lucas Lazzaretti, to analyze the construction of the narrator that occurs in both works. Thus, this article pursued the verification of how the narrators are riddled with a self-reflexive discourse, having as focus their action of narrating and, its limits and possibilities. This kind of building of narrative focus incites discussions meaningfully to the postmodernism poetics. Therefore, this article employed theoric contributions based mainly on Linda Hutcheon (1991), Silviano Santiago (2000), Wander Melo Miranda (2010), Ricardo Piglia (2016) and Beatriz Sarlo (2007), to analyze the proceedings that make up the narrative focus of these novels and to verify their insertion into the postmodernism poetics. It gathered that as well in the Argentinian novel as in the Brazilian novel there were features common to the postmodern narrators, mostly the fragmentation of the discourses, which provokes the instability of narrations, and also the self-reflexivity about the act of narrating.