3. The issue which arises in this
research is due to the fact that while
the news stories in the books studied
have very intriguing texts, the
narratives in the four news stories
employ language strategies that
tend more toward literature than
journalism.
4. mean to say that the books
contain lies.
It doesn’t wish to entertain that
thought.
However, in many instances, the facts described are
enhanced with strategies that are more associated with
novels, as opposed to journalism.
5. • The transversality of text in history, literature and journalism;
• Text in addition to the news: journalistic narrative in news
writing;
• New Journalism: from novels to the use of fiction in factual text;
• New Journalism fiction in the non-fiction novels of Caco
Barcellos and Fernando Morais.
7. How the author would
have known what the
young people were
talking about if at the
end of the chase they
were killed?
8. How did the author have
access to Olga who was
imprisoned in an isolated
wing of a concentration
camp?
9. Historical
discourse
The narrative in non- Literary
fiction novels displays a discourse
hybridism
Journalistic
discourse
10. Historical discourse has open gaps and
temporal intervals that the author cannot
account for.
“Effect of “Lived
reality” effect”
Roland BARTHES Fraçois DOSSE
11. "effect of what
happened"
Based on the use of facts that did indeed occur, fictional
strategies gain strength in the text and play a predominant
role throughout the narratives.
12. News stories in New
Journalism should be
read as though they
were a novel.
(Tom Wolfe)
In the case of the non-fiction novels that were studied, the
opposite occurs: the texts appear to be novels to be read as though
they were stories.
13. Juan Domingues,
Ph.D
{ Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio
Grande do Sul - BRA
Editor's Notes
A pesquisa que apresento, de forma reduzida aqui, trata do limite entre fato e ficção em livros-reportagem de dois renomados jornalistas brasileiros, Caco Barcellos e Fernando Morais. O primeiro se dedica ao livro-reportagem-denúncia e trata, essencialmente, de histórias sobre a atuação da polícia e a questão do tráfico de drogas no Brasil. O outro jornalista especializou-se em escrever livros-reportagem-perfil. Para o trabalho, analisei duas grandes reportagens de cada um deles publicadas em livro. Em todas, a presença dos elementos essenciais do Novo Jornalismo estão claramente presentes, o que garante uma leitura envolvente do começo ao fim.
The issue which arises in this research is due to the fact that while the news stories in the books studied have very intriguing texts, the narratives in the four news stories employ language strategies that tend more toward literature than journalism. I do not mean to say that the books contain lies. I do not wish to entertain that thought. However, in many instances, the facts described are enhanced with strategies that are more associated with novels, as opposed to journalism.
In this last chapter I seek to identify the essential attributes of New Journalism in the narratives of Barcellos and Morais, and apprehend that the non-fiction narratives, proposed by New Journalism, appear to give rise to an invented, illusory, fanciful description of facts.
After three years researching this theme – a subject which, by the way, has always been an object of debate in the world of literary journalism – it becomes clear that the narrative in non-fiction novels displays a hybridism between historical, literary and journalistic discourses. In this sense, I seek to determine where this hybrid text belongs.
Tom Wolfe used to say that news stories in New Journalism should be read as though they were a novel. In the case of the non-fiction novels that were studied, the opposite occurs: the texts appear to be novels to be read as though they were news stories.
