Autor, narrador e discurso: uma leitura da obra O crime do padre Amaro

Abstract

This paper aims to show the pluringualism in the work O crime do padre Amaro, by Eça de Queirós, based on Mikhail Bakhtin s theories, who defends that every and any discourse is exempt from neutrality and full of intentions. Inspired by the dialogical and polyphonic theories, this paper will investigate the multiple voices in the narrative, searching for revealing characteristics from different speeches. The study intends to analyze author s possible intentions when using the narrator s voice to mask his own ironic and satirical discourse, presenting all his criticism through a discourse that overlaps the original one. The author presents in his work voices from different spheres, where author s anticlericalism, scientificism and reformism are reproduced. These discourses, when produced by the narrator, make effects that, in the fiction, build the reality. From this perspective, this analysis shows that through an innovative discourse, distant from the classical literary tradition, Eça de Queirós proposes a writing with endless possibilities, since there are many other voices to be revealed