Instâncias autorais: autor, editor, voz narrativa e leitor em Se um Viajante numa Noite de Inverno de Italo Calvino

Abstract

This paper is about our reading of If on a traveler on a winter’s night, book was wrote by Italo Calvino (1979), and the aim is to analyze three characters from the book: the editor, the author and the reader, as well as we study the book “narrative voice”. To the writer “a relação de quem narra com a matéria narrada e com o leitor” is the “problemática mais árdua da narrativa contemporânea” (CALVINO, 2009, p. 199). This discussions in this text is based on Roger Chartier about author and editor (1998), Antoine Compagnon (2001) about author, reader and style, the “author’s dead” by Roland Barthes (2004), Michel Foucault and what is an author? (2009), Umberto Eco (1994) and the reader, among others. We understand the author is a figure divided by Umberto Eco in autor-modelo and autor-empírico and the narrative strategies used by the writer talks with these categories – and these categories are very hard to separate on historical author figure. The Editor is part of the authorship in the sense that the Editorial House is the place where texts that pass through the aesthetic list established by an Editor are accepted for publication. Studying the death of the author announces that the reader should be emphasized in his reading activity. The conclusion we reach is that in If a traveler on a winter's night Italo Calvino created a trappings romance, be it the average reader or the other readers.