Narradores não-confiáveis: a narrativa fantástica das crianças

Abstract

The narrator is one of the most important figures inside the narrative universe, it has the capacity and the knowledge to enunciate the facts that occur within the plot. Based on this idea, it comes to mind the possibility of a distortion between the information that is given to the listener and what has really happened, being it on purpose or not. Due to the fact that all the content is passed through only one perspective, would there be cases where the narrator is someone who’s handicapped or immature enough to communicate in a mistaken way the events that happen throughout the story? The term unreliable narrator was specified for the first time in 1961 as a narrator that doesn’t act according to the norms of the work, and since then it has been numerous times discussed and used in literature as well as in movies. It’s themes and motivations range from psychological disorders to the simple ingenuity in comprehending facts. This paperwork seeks to investigate how an unreliable narrator impacts the perspective of the narrative and how a child assumes the role of an unreliable narrator in audiovisual products. The simpler view, the understanding of facts and the way children express themselves, impact on the way they tell stories. Through bibliographic research and analysis of movies that make use of those resources, this study points that the children’s mixture of reality and fantasy and their struggle in following a time structure and creating order and causality relations, among other characteristics, may indicate an unreliable narrator and even change the tone of the narrative