NARRATED AND NARRATING I IN IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI–CONTINI
1988; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/its.1988.43.1.117
ISSN1748-6181
Autores Tópico(s)Narrative Theory and Analysis
ResumoThe importance of distinguishing between the narrated and the narrating I in the autobiographical novel has been brought into sharper focus by Genette in his study on Proust, which has also shown that ‘point of view’ (an approach to narrative dear to Anglo-American criticism) is inadequate for differentiating between a first and third person technique. When a story is focalized through a particular character the viewpoint will be the same whether the character is the narrator speaking in the first person or a centre of consciousness in a third person novel. The difference here, Genette (p. 186) argues, is one of voice not of viewpoint: who speaks not who sees. Study of viewpoint, however, is particularly relevant to the autobiographical novel when subtle oscillation occurs between the perspective of the narrating I distanced from the events recounted, and that of the experiencing I of past consciousness re-enacted. This phenomenon (again in relation to Proust) was noted sixty years ago by Spitzer, who made use of the terms erzählendes Ich and erzähltes Ich. In A la recherche du temps perdu they are juxtaposed and interwoven as the first finds ways of reflecting on and questioning the experiences of the second recalled through involuntary memory.
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