MORAL IDENTITY OF THE NARRATOR. A NARRATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ON MORALITY
MORAL IDENTITY OF THE NARRATOR. A NARRATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ON MORALITY

Summary/Abstract: Is there an interconectedness between the unreliability of the narrator in magical realism and the degree of trespassing morally acceptable behaviour? The narrator seems to reject the interpretation of reality in favour of being the chronicler of an ancestral community, resorting to community-shaping power of storytelling. Writers do use some techniques through which the narrator's persona is construed so as to make the reader disconnect his/her moral appraisal of the fictional acts of responsibility. Thus the reader suspends the reflective judgement while immersed in the very act of reading, forgetting at a first glance to appraise it as something ' negative'. Poetical language is sometimes dissolved into the style of magical realism prose.

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