O caso Morel: a metafictional case

v.24,n.1,p.173-189,jan./jun. 2012.Este artigo reflete sobre o romance O caso Morel (1973), de Rubem Fonseca, partindo de pressupostos referentes à metaficcionalidade. Para isso, comentará acerca da experimentação romanesca exposta por Monegal (1979) nos romances produzidos a partir da década de 1960. Serão usadas como base para a problematização da metaficcionalidade as considerações de Hutcheon (1984). Além disso, Dällenbach (1973) será lembrado a fim de se pensar sobre a presença diegética do escritor e do leitor no romance de Fonseca, ponto importante para a configuração da narrativa metaficcional. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This article reflects on Rubem Fonseca’s novel O caso Morel (1973), starting from presuppositions relating to the metafictional narratives. To do so, the novel’s experimentation procedures produced after the 1960s, expounded by Monegal (1979), will be commented on. The considerations of metafictional narratives by Hutcheon (1984) will be used as a basis for reflection. Moreover, Dällenbach (1973) will be remembered to think about the diegetic presence of the writer and the reader in Fonseca’s novel. This presence is an important aspect that sets the metafictional narratives