Até que a verdade os separe : as estratégias narrativas e a manipulação do leitor em Garota exemplar.

Abstract

We propose, through this monograph, an investigation of the strategies used by the narrators/protagonists in the work Gone girl and their effects on the reader’s concretization. Starting from a wide perspective from the field where our subject is inserted, we conceptualize and analyze some of the literature’s characteristics, so we can gradually narrow these definitions, following the main concept of literature until the definitions of the novel – focalizing, finally, specifically on the crime fiction. In the course of our work we approach the different typologies and narrators’ uses, from Ronaldo Costa Fernandes (1996) and Norman Friedman (2002), investigating the diverse techniques (such as focalization, interchange or not of points of view, cutting techniques, flashbacks, introduction of characters, negations, insertion of blanks) used to encourage the reader’s participation in the story. Observing the studies of the Aesthetic Response Theory, we analyze the effect of the text in the reader using concepts from Wolfgang Iser (1999), and we put them into practice in the course of the analysis of the book, by extracting relevant quotes to the description of said strategies and effects. This study lead us to the ratification of the hypothesis created in our project, that questioned the intentional use of the paratexts, the double point of view, the addition of blanks and other strategies in the induction of a misinterpretation by the reader.