Abstract

BLANCAS BLANCAS, Noé. Homodiegesis as Resource to Name the Intimatein “La llovizna”, by Juan de la Cabada. Valenciana [online]. 2024, vol.17, n.34, pp.113-136.  Epub Nov 26, 2024. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v17i34.760.

The story “La llovizna” (1952), by Juan de la Cabada, takes to the extreme the possibilities of unfolding the narrative voice in first-person enunciation; as well as the possibilities of naming the intimate from fiction. The narrator, after brief reluctance, decides to tell a story: one Sunday night, in the middle of the drizzle, he gives a ride to some Indians who are coming from burying a little girl; since then, the drizzle reminds him of his own dead daughter. Since the narrator splits into an I-narrator and an I-character, their relationship becomes a meta-story, while, by telling the universal -the death of another girl-, he manages to tell the intimate - the death of his own daughter. Based on narratological notions, the implications of the use of homodiegesis in the perception of fiction itself are analyzed here.

Keywords : De la Cabada; La llovizna; Fiction; Homodiegesis; Metadiegesis.

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