Narration, realism and authorship in History and in the novel

O artigo busca representar um processo de releituras, reescrituras, reaproveitamentos e reflexões acerca de determinados autores contemporâneos do romance e da historiografia. Em comum, esses romancistas e historiadores teriam uma escrita que enfatiza o próprio escrever do texto e, com isto, coloca o narrador em outra posição dentro da estética realista e da retórica historiográfica. Por meio de procedimentos textuais que descrevem e simulam o esboçar, o rasurar, o reescrever, o revisar, o refutar, o recomeçar e o continuar a escrever, os autores analisados entram no texto, questionam e reformulam tanto o realismo dito formal e oitocentista, quanto o método empírico da pesquisa histórica, igualmente associado ao século XIX – ambas as escolas com sobrevivências e desdobramentos ao longo dos últimos cem anos. No movimento de escrita do artigo, a leitura, a análise e a releitura desses autores abrem espaço para alguns imprevistos e reflexões acerca da forma do texto acadêmico.The present article intends to represent a process of rereading, rewriting, reusing and reflecting about certain contemporary novel and historiography authors. In common, these novelists and historians have a way of writing that emphasizes the act of writing itself (or their own act of writing) and, therefore, put their narrators in another discourse position when considering both the realist aesthetic and the historiographycal rhetoric. By textual procedures that describe and simulate acts of drafting, erasing, rewriting, revising, rebuting, and reopening, the authors in question put themselves into the text, questioning and reformulating not only the so called formal realism from the 18th century but also the historical research and its empirical method linked to the 19th century – both schools that survived and thrived for the last hundred years. In writing this article – reading, analyzing and rereading these authors – we could reflect on how academic texts are written