Diálogos entre literatura e jornalismo: o romance-reportagem “Aracelli, Meu Amor” de José Louzeiro e “Crônica de uma Morte Anunciada” de Gabriel García Márquez

Abstract

This work aims to study the relationship between literature and journalism, specifically as it is made in the journalistic novel. To do so we select and analyze the works of Brazilian journalist writer José Louzeiro´s Aracelli, meu amor (1976), and the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Due to our limited knowledge of Spanish language we used the Portuguese version of Marquez’s novel Crônica de uma morte anunciada (1982), translated by Fernando Assis Pacheco. We aimed to compare these narratives to ascertain the similarities and differences between these two authors who choose to construct a hybrid narrative, mixing the techniques of novel and journalism. Moreover, as these works are produced in different sociocultural contexts and languages, as well as influenced by different areas of knowledge, we try to highlight the intercultural and interdisciplinary in plot structure and thematic choice. As the theoretical basis, we follow the path guided by the theory and method of the Comparative Literature, combined with discussion about the convergence between the journalistic and literary discourse.