La vérité derrière la vérité ou la mise en abîme dissimulatrice des catégories narratives dans L'automne du Patriarche de Gabriel García Márquez

Résumé (en anglais)

The pact of reading of the realistic novel seems clear: a fiction built according to the same categories as immediate reality is proposed to the reader. However, the narrative categories of time, voice and space acquire functions in the works of writers such as García Márquez as they build a fictitious universe by superimposing significant layers. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, one can notice, at the first level, a significant change of the proposed pact of reading. The reader is made to believe that he/she will read a life story, that of the patriarch, but is shown in fact a picture of the whole society. Márquez' story becomes a lark mirror; in spite of himself/herself the reader is taken in a continuous narrative, in a whirlwind where he/she loses his/her narrative landmarks and he/she is directed, without being told, into a magma composed of myth, magical reality and fictional story based on a factual story. Time is permanently dilated and deformed; existential plans are mixed, myth is incorporated into reality, multiple voices and changes of focalization also mingle plans thus generating plural reading. This article will examine this very special operation of narrative categories.