THE NARRATIVE OF NAEL: A LOOK AT THE DERIVA FROM YOURSELF

Abstract

In Dois irmãos, Milton Hatoum takes up the theme of the family drama and the house that has broken up. For this, he uses a first-person narrator who builds his story in the old fashion, like the old storytellers of oral tradition. Putting together the pieces of the past, the narrator decides to tell the story of the family of which he was part of, using his memory and the reports of other people with whom he lived, when almost all are dead. This narrator walks in the midst of the lights of what he has seen and in the shadows of what he could not see, so he brings with him a partial view of the facts, it being incumbent to the reader to take part in the narrative and also to construct the text as it goes deeper into the story. Thus Hatoum presents us with a narrative full of silences and gaps, which the logic of narration itself cannot fulfill, and which can only come to a good conclusion with the participation of the reader.