L’artefatta spontaneità: alcune considerazioni sullo skaz e sul suo ruolo nel rapporto autore-narratore-lettore

The essay tries to trace a path on some of the mechanisms of skaz following the works of very different authors: Tat’jana Tolstaja’s Kys’, Isaak Babel’s tales, Jorge Amado’s Captains of the Sand and João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas. The joining aspect between these works must be find in the common attitude of the writers of permitting the characters and the internal narrator to convey directly their own point of view, while the author eclipses himself in a very hidden position. The reader has to reconstruct the author’s point of view by awakening his presence in the text, hinted implicitly by irony, nostalgy, etc. Especially irony acts as a veiled link between the author and the reader, who percives his self-exclusion from the hic et nunc of the narration and from the characters’s skaz: irony underlines this unreachable distance and separates the reader from the naive narrateer as well as it takes the author apart from his narrator.