Intersecções entre o narrador pseudo-onisciente de Incidente em Antares (de Erico Verissimo) e o romance polifônico de Os irmãos Karamázov (de Dostoiévski)

Intersections between the pseudo-oniscient narrator in Incidente em Antares (by Erico Verissimo) and the polyphonic novel in The Karamázov brothers (by Dostoiévski)

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the narrator of the novel Incident in Antares ([1971]2005), by Erico Verissimo. The hypothesis raised is that the narrator disguises himself as an observer; however, first person is disguised in discourse as a pseudo-omniscience. This hypothesis leads to a paradox of the narrative situation: if the first person cannot be omniscient, how is omniscience present in the novel? It is assumed that this strategy refers directly to the concept of the polyphonic novel, a genre conceived by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in the study of Dostoevsky's works. For the investigation, it will be necessary to draw a parallel between the work of the writer from Rio Grande do Sul and The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky ([1889] 2017). There are supposed to be similarities between the narrative situations.