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New Journalism fiction in Brazilian non-fiction novels

Juan DominguesJuan Domingues, Ph. D., Ph. D.

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Suldo Sul

Fact and Fiction in non-fiction novels

The issue which arises in this research is due to the fact that while the news stories in the

books studied have very intriguing texts, the narratives

in the four news stories employ language strategies that

tend more toward literature than journalism.

It It doesn’tdoesn’t

mean to say that the books contain lies.

wish to entertain that thought.

However, in many instances, the facts described are enhanced with strategies that are more associated with novels, as opposed

to journalism.

• The transversality of text in history, literature and journalism;

• Text in addition to the news: journalistic narrative in news writing;

• New Journalism: from novels to the use of fiction in factual text;

• New Journalism fiction in the non-fiction novels of Caco Barcellos and Fernando Morais.

Non-fiction narratives, Non-fiction narratives, proposed by New Journalism, proposed by New Journalism,

appear to give rise to an appear to give rise to an invented, illusory, fanciful invented, illusory, fanciful

description of facts. description of facts.

How the author would have known what the young people were talking about if at the end of the chase they were killed?

How did the author have access to Olga who was imprisoned in an isolated wing of a concentration camp?

The narrative in non-fiction novels displays a

hybridism

Historical discourse

Literary discourse

Journalistic discourse

“Effect of reality”

Roland BARTHES

“Lived effect”

Fraçois DOSSE

Historical discourse has open gaps and temporal intervals that the author cannot

account for.

"effect of what happened"

Based on the use of facts that did indeed occur, fictional strategies gain strength in the text and play a predominant

role throughout the narratives.

News stories in New Journalism should be read as though they were a novel.

(Tom Wolfe)

In the case of the non-fiction novels that were studied,

the opposite occurs: the texts appear to be novels to be read as though they were stories.

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Juan Juan Domingues, Domingues, Ph.DPh.D

Pontifícia Universidade Católica Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - BRAdo Rio Grande do Sul - BRA