Artificial Spontaneity

some considerations on skaz and its role in the author-narrator-reader relationship

Authors

  • Stefano Aloe Università di Verona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2019.162139

Keywords:

Skaz, Theory of Narrative, Russian-Brazilian comparative literatures

Abstract

This article seeks a path of interpretation of some of the mechanisms of the literary device that the formalists called “skaz.” It examines it in very different works, including Tat’jana Tolstaja’s Kys’, Isaak Babel’s Tales, Jorge Amado’s Captains of the Sand and João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas. The element that unites these works is to be sought in the authors’ common attitude: they let some of the characters and the main narrator directly convey their own point of view, while the authors’ indirect point of view tends to disappear in a completely hidden position.

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Author Biography

  • Stefano Aloe, Università di Verona

    Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Literature

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Published

2019-12-10

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Artigos

How to Cite

Aloe, S. (2019). Artificial Spontaneity: some considerations on skaz and its role in the author-narrator-reader relationship. RUS (Sao Paulo), 10(14), 83-115. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2019.162139