O RPG de mesa como laboratório ficcional na literatura contemporânea e o estatuto do narrador

Abstract

This dissertation aims to take a look at literary criticism under the RPG. Through analysis of the various constituent elements of the game, the work will initially show an aspect of the possible historical origins of the table RPG, its functioning as a board game, the constituent elements that characterize it as a game and narrative and in what way the game stimulates the narrative authorship and the creation of new textual genres; using online sources and another researcher who works with RPG. In the second part of the analysis, the focus goes to the theory of literary criticism, in which its similarities and the relationship with the elements that constitute the narrative, especially the novel, will be pointed out; in this discussion the postulates of Joseph Campbell, Antonio Candido and others are used. After the previous analyzes, the work will continue towards its objective, to draw a narrative cartography of the narrator's status that the RPGs offer to contemporary literature, while discussing the issue of the "death of the author"; drawing on the theory of Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin among other theorists who discuss the categories of the narrative text