Two stories in MArcel Aymé's and Clarice Lispector's fashion

Abstract

Marcel Aymé and Clarice Lispector - the latter parodying the former - restore, in their fiction, at least rwo aspects frequently found modern brief narrative: emphasis on the narrator's subjectivity and the organisation of the plot as inset stories in a narrative frame. Such aspects, however, are intensified either in the shape of narrators who arbitrarily interfere in the pace of the account or in the paradoxical constitution of only one narrative structure sheltering more than one story.