O horizonte de expectativas do leitor em Se um viajante numa noite de inverno, de Italo Calvino

Abstract

Written by the Italian novelist and essayist Italo Calvino, and published by Einaudi in 1979, If on a winter’s night a traveler is one of the most significant metafictional works of Western literature, to the extent that the author reveals the mechanisms of narration, triggering a reflection about the practice of writing and reading, as well as about the relationship between the writer, the text and the reader in the literary work itself. Thus, this dissertation aims to demonstrate how the novel If on a winter’s night a traveler operates on the horizon of expectations of the Reader – the protagonist of the novel, taking as theoretical references the Philosophical hermeneutics, the Aesthetics of reception and effect, as well as the conceptions derived from the studies of region and regionality. It is observed, in this sense, concepts and categories intrinsically associated with the horizon of expectations of the Reader, such as hermeneutic experience, aesthetic experience, empty spaces, region, and regionality.