O narrador-nuvem: uma análise da voz narrativa em Rastros do verão, de João Gilberto Noll

Abstract

The premise that changes in reality interfere with modes of representation has supported, according to Horne (2011) and Schøllhammer (2009), studies on a new form of realism in the Latin American territory from the 20th century onward. The context of aesthetic renewal encompasses the narrative Rastros do verão (1986), written by João Gilberto Noll, it is complemented, according to the authors, by a trend linked to social potentials. Based on this dialectical approach, which seeks to propose interaction between literature and production context, the aim of this work is to build an analysis of the narrative voice of the book in dialogue with Maffesoli's (1996) theory on nomadism, with the intention of to highlight the specificities of the narrative. For this purpose, the literature review was adopted as the research methodology. In addition to the aforementioned authors, the process involved contributions from Adorno (2003), Rosenfeld (1996), Friedman (2002), Santiago (2002), and Villaça (1996). Through the study, the reading hypothesis suggests the interpretation of a particular way of to narrate, not entirely fitting within traditional categorizations, and coherent with the phenomenon in focus. The inadequacy of the narrative voice for three categories identified by Friedman (2002) – protagonist narrator, witness narrator, and camera – as well as the analytical observation of a symbolic element in the text, structured the proposal for a specific nomenclature for the narrative: the cloud narrator.