Narrador e experiência: uma leitura de Reprodução de Bernardo Carvalho

Abstract

This study consists of the analysis of the narrator titled Chinese student in the novel Reprodução (2013), by Bernardo Carvalho as a fictional element of contemporary society. We try to discuss comparatively the constitution of this narrator in relation to the narrators of Mongólia (2003) and O sol se põe em São Paulo (2007), works of the same author in order to observe their similarities and differences. We analyze the concept of experience and the task of being a writer today, as well as the different types of narrative labyrinths in each of the works studied. The narrator Chinese student can be considered a product of contemporary society and the enunciation of a discourse loaded with prejudices brings in itself the current hegemonic ideas, being recognized as subject by other individuals in the same condition that reproduce similar discourses. As a narrator he represents the retrieval of the narrative's ability to transmit, as long as readers move from what he says to the social conditions that allow or even force him to make his statements. The ability to transmit the narrative is directly related to the re-signification of the narrative, a task to be carried out by the readers, in order to reveal the contradictions and inconsistencies of the current hegemonic discourse aiming at overcoming it.