Uno, nessuno e centomila : dépersonnalisation de l’écriture et perte d’identité by Florence Pellegrini

“…This Analyzing Luigi Pirandello’s last novel, Uno, nessuno e centomila (1926), we will consider the reconfiguration of the character that operates Pirandellian fiction, in connection with the withdrawal of the narrative instance inaugurated by the Flaubertian text. …”
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L’Incipit de Jane Eyre : l’annonce d’une quête by Elise Ouvrard

“…In this first unit of text, what is quite striking is that the ekphrasis enables the narrator to give a thematic, poetic and aesthetic orientation to the novel that is being written. …”
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Pastourelles : narrateur, bergère et troupeau by Charlotte Guiot

“…The Medieval Pastourelle is mostly telling about the encounter between a male narrator and a stereotypical shepherdess. The latter is shortly described through an erotic point of view. …”
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Narrativas del conflicto y construcciones del pasado entre los q’eqchi’es: del relato de vida al mito by Agnès Bergeret

“…This article studies how the Q’eqchi’ of Cahabón (Alta Verapaz, Guatemala) relate to different past times, by examining the dynamics of two broad categories of narrative genre: established “stories” about ancestors and more autobiographical narratives about individual “suffering” experienced in recent times. …”
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Que dire de la montagne ? Arthur Young dans les Pyrénées (1787) by Jacques Raynaud

“…At the end of the XVIIIth century, travel literature was supposed to provide information about the places visited by the author/narrator. Consequently, description is an essential feature of those books. …”
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Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. …”
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Play-write Poetry in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist by Yannicke Chupin

“…The following article focuses on the function of literary play in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist, a meta-fictional novel whose narrator Paul Chowder is a writer and poet who struggles to write the introduction of a forthcoming anthology of rhymed poetry. …”
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The Making of Sami Ethnography: Contested Authorities and Negotiated Representations by Kristin Kuutma

“…My main focus is on the collaborative effort of the publication process, to investigate the emergence and negotiation of representational authority, of cultural poetics, of social and cultural critique, in order to defy the preconception of a passive informant of a cultural experience. The Sámi narrator Johan Turi is discussed, instead, as an active agent in providing a voice to the Sámi people in the collaborative process of ethnography writing. …”
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De l’exposition à la décomposition prismatique : art de la mémoire et arts visuels dans Speak, Memory de Vladimir Nabokov by Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty

“…Framing and pictorial devices allow the narrator to highlight significant episodes and salvage them from the flow of time while allusions to photography invite the reader to analyze the complex dialectic of light and darkness, and awareness and oblivion at work in the emergence of memories. …”
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Zwodnicza szczerość(?) Jana Jakuba Rousseau czyli narracja jako kreacja i doświadczanie świata by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…It presents the attitude of the author/narrator towards the presented reality and the interesting process of its subjectivization, interpretation and evaluation. …”
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Suferințele tânărului Ghica by Nicolae Mecu

“…Presenting briefly their contents of political history, the study emphasizes the literary component of the discourse, revealing the parts that identify the anticipations of the future Realist narrator, eager for facts and colour, creator of memorable scenes and characters.…”
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L’Étrange cas de Coleman Silk, le Jewbird de The Human Stain de Philip Roth by Frédéric Dumas

“…This mysterious presence raises the question of the essentially fictional nature of Coleman Silk’s edifying story within the diegesis, for the narrator’s imagination makes up a paradoxical pattern combining both estrangement and revelation.…”
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Prawdziwe życia Vladimira Nabokova. Trzy (auto)biografie jednego autora by Andrey Kotin

“… Tytuł artykułu nawiązuje (nieco przewrotnie) do pierwszej anglojęzycznej powieści Nabokova Prawdziwe życie Sebastiana Knighta, której narrator podąża tropem swojego niedawno zmarłego przyrodniego brata, wybitnego pisarza, by w finale uświadomić sobie nadaremność poszukiwania prawdy obiektywnej o artyście i człowieku w ogóle. …”
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O parricídio como espetáculo da violência: O dia em que matei meu pai by Aileen El-Kadi

“…The first person narrative voice in the novel by Mario Sabino, O dia em que matei meu pai, builds an universe composed of two coordinates, one follows the logic of subjective pleasure/perversion where the characters show social pathology des- cribed by the narrator as a result of a context governed by psychological violence and amorality, and where the dynamics is always erotic, the other component is spectacular as the axis from which the characters seem to represent roles built based on stereotypes that arise from mass culture. …”
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Essai et fiction : à propos de Hieroglyphics, a Note upon Ecstasy in Literature (Arthur Machen, 1902) by Sophie Mantrant

“…The aim of this paper is to show how the “Prefatory Note”, a sort of frame narrative, blurs the borderline between essay and fiction and makes the status of the text problematic. …”
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« Tu n’as rien vu à Constantinople » : Thackeray au pays des harems by Laurent Bury

“…., the reader also finds the usual Thackerayan phenomenon of split personality, the narrator and the illustrator being one and the same person. …”
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D’Emma Bovary à Gemma Bovery : une approche traductologique by Ilaria Vitali

“…Within this field, the interpretive paradigm will be the one proposed by Lance Hewson, based on two levels: the “voice effects” (translational choices that modify the voice of the narrator or characters), and the “interpretational effects” (translational choices that favour different interpretive paths). …”
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L’apport de Lorenza Maranini dans le domaine des études flaubertiennes by Giorgetto Giorgi

“…In the first book she brings to light how Flaubert’s prose offers a blend of visions: those altered by the characters’ passions and the narrator’s detached and neutral visions. In the second one she argues – and rejects – György Lukàcs’ famous theory developed in The Historical Novel (partially taken up by Jean-Paul Sartre in France and by Alberto Cento in Italy) according to which Flaubert ultimately supported reactionary theories in his Parisian novel.…”
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O romance dos pais, o romance dos filhos: os personagens secundários de Alejandro Zambra by Isabela Cordeiro Lopes

“…According to the notion of « secondary characters » this paper aims to investigate the relations introduced by the narrator of the novel Formas de voltar para casa, (Ways to go back home), Alejandro Zambra, specially in contexts of family and school lives. …”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…Narration in Villette relies heavily on the figure of Lucy’s narratee, whom she addresses as often as fifty-three times in the course of the novel. …”
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