Free Indirect Speech in The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa

Authors

  • Camila de Bona Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Karina de Castilhos Lucena Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.13-35

Keywords:

indirect free speech, dictator's novels, A festa do bode, Mario Vargas Llosa

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze how free indirect discourse is configured in Mario Vargas Llosa’s Festa do Bode, especially with the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a paper published in 2005, the literary critic Franco Moretti argues that the Peruvian writer introduces us to the mind of his character without passing through judging filters, thanks to the mastery of the use of free indirect speech, by means of which the dictator’s ‘evil’ is sublimated. We verified in this study that Moretti’s statement does not proceed in a more accurate linguistic and literary analysis.

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Author Biographies

Camila de Bona, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutoranda em Estudos da Linguagem (UFRGS) e Professora do Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense (IFSul).

Karina de Castilhos Lucena, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutora em Letras, com ênfase nas Literaturas de Língua Espanhola, e Professora de Literatura da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS.

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Published

2017-07-03

How to Cite

Bona, C. de, & Lucena, K. de C. (2017). Free Indirect Speech in The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 27(1), 13–35. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.13-35

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2017): Literatura e Mal

Section

Dossiê - Literatura e Mal

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