Statutul naratorului în „Tainele inimii” de Mihail Kogălniceanu [Articol]

Abstract

The article evokes the narrator's functions in the beginning of the novel The Mysteries of the Heart by Mihail Kogălniceanu. Omnipresent and omniscient, the narrative court is dominant in the text – by revelation details, excessive communication of information and direct dialogue with the potential reader. In this way, the narrator monopolizes the discourse, which consists, in particular, of ample descriptions of the public garden Copou and other sequences from the another time space of Iași town. Even in the fragments where the scene enters characters, their role is insignificant, being reduced only to short replies. So, the narrator of Mihail Kogălniceanu, who sometimes confuse himself with the author (the narrator ego overlaps with the biographical), having also the director's conscience, assumes exclusively the informative function. Consequently, the text becomes a reporter, the narrator seriously assuming the position of reporter, committed to observe and to convey, to the smallest details, images of his contemporaneity.