Mais real que a realidade : a obra 1808 e o uso de elementos da narrativa literária pelo jornalismo

Abstract

This dissertation studies complexification which is established as a result of the dialogue existing between journalism and literature. It observes what happens when journalism, although it was previously legitimated as a reality transmitter, uses literary narrative artifices – especially, the effect of real – to enlarge the legitimacy of its speech. Through the scope of Roland Barthes (1984), it is recognizable that the effect of real is understood as a literary resource, used in the text, with the function of giving an authentication (or veracity) sensation to the narrative, because it uses a detailed description of each scenario where the reported facts happen. The research is carried out by narratological bias and adopts as corpus the 1808 writing: How a mad queen, a fearful prince and a corrupt court deceived Napoleon and changed the History of Portugal and Brazil, which was written by the journalist Laurentino Gomes (2007), and indexed as a journalistic narrative, having the shape of a book-report. It is understood that the use of literary artifices in journalism, such as the effect of real, is a component which may generate new meanings, and among them a new offer, more intense, of legitimization.