A escrita empolada em O nome do bispo: representação da elite ou contradição no discurso?

Abstract

The following paper proposes critical thinking on the over-elaborate language of the narrator in the novel O nome do bispo (1985) by Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares. The encounter with poverty by main character Heládio, a representative of a decadent Brazilian elite, is ridiculed in the plot by the narrator. However, it can be observed that a certain excess in the language strays from the given subject matter, and this will be thought out in movements of approach and distance between the narrator with its protagonist and other characters, in certain moments as a mimicry of a class and, in others, as ornamental speech and, therefore, contradictory.