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El narrador, ¿cuál es la diferencia entre la primera y la tercera persona?




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Hola. Heme aquí analizando el momento cuántico con spin de la palabra «narrador». Al menos del narrador como «algo que emite signos lingüísticos«, no tiene sexo (o género) y tampoco una distinción gramatical entre la primera o la tercera persona.

¿CUAL ES LA DIFERENCIA ENTRE AMBAS VOCES ENTONCES?

Ambas voces —la primera y la tercera persona — tienen un (yo) asociado a sus enunciados de manera que, gramaticalmente, no son distintas.  

(Yo digo) Baje por la colina y cargué contra las tropas de los Piel de lobo.
(Yo digo) Manrique bajó por la colina y cargó contra los Piel de lobo.

Si esto fuera una clase de japonés, Manrique podría ser el sujeto de ambas oraciones y la única diferencia entre una y otra sería el hecho de que Manrique se estuviera nombrando a sí mismo.

Sin embargo, hay una diferencia. La distinción viene con la focalización. Una primera persona añade un <<yo>> declarado para que podamos sumergirnos en la experiencia de cambiar de piel junto con el personaje. El yo declarado convierte lo que se dice en algo personal, íntimo y autobiográfico. Este narrador está asociado a un personaje, de ahí la abreviación NP en el análisis narratológico.

En cambio, la tercera persona no declara el «yo» o su afiliación con algún personaje dentro de la fábula. Así es como puede hablar de todo lo que sucede al exterior (Narrador Externo) y sobre todo; de los «demás» personajes sin declararse parte de la fábula. La narración se convierte en una voz indeterminada sin origen ni intencionalidad… En algo atemporal. Y eso me hace pensar: ¿Narramos nuestro existir en primera o tercera persona en presencia de otros?  

INTENCIÓN

¿ Por qué, si no hay una diferencia gramatical, se puede notar una diferencia de intención y voz en el siguiente fragmento? —Reproducido SIN el permiso del autor o de la editorial con la intención doble de explicar cosas sobre narrativa y la de promocionar[1] el trabajo de los sumeriologos.

En la ola pura,
mujer, báñate en la ola pura.
Ninlil, vete por el ribazo del río Nunbirdu.
El ser de ojos brillantes, el Señor, el ser de ojos brillantes, El «Gran Monte», el Padre Enlil, el ser de los ojos brillantes te verá.
El pastor… que decide los destinos el ser de los ojos brillantes te verá.
Allí mismo te abrazará (?), te besará.
Ninlil siguió alegremente las instrucciones de su madre

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La historia empieza en Sumer. From the tablets of Sumer. Samuel Noah Kramer. Alianza editorial.

En la primera parte casi podría añadir el guión o las comillas de diálogo. Se nota que alguien o algo (para el caso, la diosa Nunbarshegunu) habla con el personaje de Ninlil para después incluir en la última frase que copié, a una tercera persona que relata lo que hace Ninlil y que podría ser o no la misma diosa Nunbarshegunu[2] .

La segunda particularidad del NE es que puede asociarse con la intención de la invención o con la expresión de hechos verídicos de otros seres o personajes SEGÚN se añada o no fórmulas como: erase una vez o en el tiempo en que los tigres hablaban. Fórmulas que indican que, desde el principio, lo que se cuenta es ficticio…

¿Cómo puede darse uno cuenta que un texto es ficticio sin saber que es ficticio cuando el propósito del texto es preservar pero es susceptible de la exageración? ¿Es posible clasificar trabajos literarios tan antiguos como los Sumerios en ficticios y no ficticios sin que contengan la palabra “dioses”?



¿Te gustaría formar parte en primera persona de la ficción de estás chorradas? Deja un like o comenta.

A pasarlo bien, pasto kalo.


[1] Que conste que no es publicidad porque nadie me pagó nada

[2] Sí, hube de usar la función control z o de otro modo, hubiera cometido un titi de errores tratando de escribir el nombre.

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How to write fiction

Roots


Published December 19th, 2020
Translated September 2023




This tale I wrote it first like in 2015.  It didn’t have an ending first time. Second time it was this version. I’ll be boring you with this tale for the following three or four Wednesdays. Afterwards, I’ll publish the bettered version. I hope you can learn something out of it. Because between this and the second one there’s a different universe in between.

NOTE: It is highly possible that the translation gets better than the Spanish original.

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ROOTS 1



Beating in the darkness there’s a blooming red rose. Each petal oozes enough life to light itself and nothing more in a flickering spark. It won’t last much before before falling; among the excited voices from the shadows of the darkness around; at ground touch it flattens against it. A thick drop of a vibrating liquid boiling before freezing into snow.

A roof under a sad sky. It is a green house annex to the store. Flowers and other plants are shown in metallic shelves to outdoors temperatures. There are more shelves  with resting tools on them around.

A young man, his body about to swim inside a turtle neck sweater; exits the automatic door. Manure, white gloves, a pair of Wellingtons in his cart. Besides the garden, it seems the drainage needs fixing. He has a check list on his hand, 3 and a ¼» PVC tubes. Coples and copper plumbing are better, is the advice of the area expert in an orange mono. They even suggests an additional payment for installing it. A little expensive but worthy, he has no idea of plumbing or tubes. Plus, the expert seems to be a looker. Given the embarrassed smile he allowed himself.

The dust sweeps the wind over the only green garden among dry grass lots. It takes rest a second on the white van with an orange logo and it’s driver. She gets off the vehicle methodically, opens the trunk, downloads a light carrier cart that can be used as vertical wheelbarrow. She places the tubes, the wielder and the tools she can’t carry on the ranch work belt she wears on the suggested  curve of her hips.

She walks in a flexible but stiff swinging in her blue denim pants —special clients, special services * Women can decide to do the same as  some men who don the good suit to business when the client is specially charming. Don’t blame me. Women can perfectly decide when, where and with whom to flirt. The opposite can happen too. * — Thinks her in a blink-smile-moment.

The Victorian house, whited, has a floral ring bell in the front fence.

And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying…
In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What’s in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a…

Open eyes and big pupils look at the metallic bath where her soul is leaking into. Neither her eyes, dead ones, neither ours could see it. We shall content with the drops, an out of service tap, falling. Falling. Aaaall night long; to understand what’s coming down her wound, chin, face. Her bound hands behind the back and  her body weight ankle hung from a hook (a hook part of a hoist). Her feet, torn apart.

Little by little the drops stop falling. They get dry over the already rusted hemocytes on the still soft flesh. Later, the flesh and blood will sustain a different kind of beauty. A slit of light peeks in, the door ajars and we can see 5 cylinder bundles.  We can’t see them really well but we can perceive the love they have been placed there with.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou…
Another mother’s breakin’,
Heart is taking over.
When the vi’lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.
It’s the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they’re still fighting,
za zi da di da da pin
za zi da di da da pin
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying…
za zi da di da da pin

The long fingered hand slides the i-pod to the back pocket and stops the song. The blue faded jeans with the dark knees, loam and green spots, cross a hall of falling apart furniture, yet spotless as transparent dust grains.

TO BE CONTINUED

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Calla

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Callando, callando y en serie desdibujando…con un dedo unos labios, el fuego.

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¿Cuándo y dónde deja de ser el narrador el mismo autor? p2

Emma Catherine Embury, Auguste Edouart

En la entrada anterior intentaba comprender la siguiente afirmación: “Jane Austen no es el narrador de Emma” o repitiendo como loro “El n

arrador de Emma no es Jane Austen”; todo para alcanzar el preciado conocimiento de que el autor no puede ser el narrador desde el punto de vista de la narratología; por lo que ahora falta averiguar ¿por qué? y ¿quién o qué es el narrador?

DEFINICION DE NARRADOR

Aha. Lo que sucede es que, por narrador, la narratología usa una definición donde se elimina toda posibilidad de humanizar al narrador.

El narrador es: «el agente que emite los signos lingüísticos que constituyen el texto».

Ya estamos otra vez trasteando con las palabras y con los conceptos lingüísticos. De nuevo, la narratología se sale del ámbito psicológico y se mete a lo visible del texto. El narrador se vincula directamente con las palabras. Sin palabras no hay texto. Sin narrador no hay palabras narrativas. Por lo tanto, la narratología se queda sin razones de estudio en el momento en que desaparece el narrador. Lo gracioso es que no recuerdo quién escribió que la narrativa no se limitaba a la escritura o la forma de la escritura… Creo que Robert McKee.

El narrador es importante. Está vinculado con las palabras porque las palabras que aparecen en la historia, depende de quién focaliza esas palabras y de qué persona gramatical les da tono. No obstante, avanzó un poco más en el texto y descubro que la focalización deja de tener un vínculo con el texto en el sentido que el narrador se define ÚNICAMENTE por los signos lingüísticos que escupe… Disculpa, que emite con forma de historia, es decir, que narra. Por lo tanto, el narrador es independiente del focalizador (aunque de forma tradicional no se vea así…). Y me parece que ya empiezo a comprender porque siguen sin poder separar los textos narrativos del resto de los textos.

Para Mieke, que se los tome a los dos como parte del conjunto «técnica narrativa», causa que la definición de técnica narrativa se amplíe hasta el grado de tener que incluir TODAS LAS técnicas usadas para contar una historia… Y si alguna vez has escrito algo antes de leer este blog, pues ya sabrás que lo que está escrito no es única y simplemente lo que está escrito. Son un montón de horas de pensar como presentar la historia para que cause un efecto. De averiguar cómo el focalizador va a influir el punto de vista del lector incluso si uno no tiene idea de que es un focalizador porque los manuales de escriture jamás mencionan los focalizadores… que yo sepa.

Intentar separar los textos narrativos de los no narrativos solo por los signos lingüísticos es como convertirse en un Auditor de los del Mundo disco y descomponer la pintura Hombre con hoja de parra  en un montoncito de pigmentos. A mi modo de ver (para nada humilde porque ya estoy dando una opinión sin que nadie la pida); un texto narrativo no se puede separar en átomos narrativos (palabras) para saber que hace de un texto narrativo un texto narrativo. No funciona. Por alguna razón, la que sea, no funciona.

¿Qué opinas? ¿Pueden descomponerse los textos narrativos en un conjunto de signos lingüísticos o habrá que incluir todas las técnicas narrativas? Todo esto está sujeto a cambios sin previo aviso, que conste. Y no le des like, no te suscribas ni dejes comentarios. Al fin y al cabo, este blog vive de aire (patrocinado por la palabra “Dan chan”).

Pasto kalo. A pasarla bien.

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Storytelling to have them wrapped around your finger p3

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Today… today we will be meeting the hero’s entourage. The king can’t rule without a court and we can’t have fun without the gossip from it… The hero needs helpers or predecessors to show him/her the way.

THE ENCOUNTER

All right. All quest has a trio or a pair or an entourage. Dorotea didn’t go to Oz land without Toto or the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin man. Arthur can’t win without Excalibur.

We need at least two fundamental extras in the journey. She (woman?[1]) will meet someone to guide her into the secrets of using the product or service or company. The reason of having companions is to assist the hero during her journey. We need someone to take the bullet or to leave the hero behind so the hero needs to change and reach the last trial.

Link… Our hero gets a Fae. Navi[2]. A GPS Waze sort of thing to show us where to look at to find treasure or weapons. Second encounter is Princess Zelda. The one to teach us the ocarine Time music, the one to … Be rescued. She is the ultimate goal. Without her, no Time is possible and without her, the hero’s last trial won’t happen.

Going on with the example of the heroine about to crash school subject. Let’s say she meets the older student about to graduate and get a job who will teach her how to use the app to acquire the secrets of algebra. And remember, since this is MY blog and I am a little crazy, this is nonsense.

MAGICAL ELEMENTS

More than magical elements such as the sword in the stone and the red shoes, we need a snowball. We need the odds or happenings which will bring CHANGE. The passing exam, the dead enemy with the magical sword, the words saying «Let’s go home». The sunlight and rainbow after the storm. The part where this blog almost disappeared but there was someone to pay for its hosting and name (hurray!). That.

There has to be snowball and melted snowball. Magic. Without magic life is gray, dull, expendable. Why do you think Harry Potter is popular? Just because it is a good book on friendship? No, there’s magic.

Nuval Yoah Harari says the most difficult thing of life is to reckon life has been in vain. Legs and sight lost to war in vain. Time wasted to gain a new car in vain. So the plot. We need purpose. A meaning. For sure what’s to come has to be better. And Mark Mason talks of the same stuff. We know hope because we can’t live without it. Within that without, is that we can sell things.

FINAL BOSS

The third trial or the last boss. To our webinarist, life changed lalalaland. The character knows of the product/service/company and their existence has been solved. Zaz! The webinarist tells us not to create a fairy tale… Ha. We have been creating one! That the ending has to be ground based doesn’t mean fairy tales are out of what we have been doing… We are introducing nothing less of a fairy tale. In real life no product saves us from whatever chore it is we’re running away from.



The final boss part of the fable can be summarised as a question: what happened in their life (heroine/hero) that it changed?


HALF TRUTHS

It is and it isn’t. You already know we make it up by telling half truths and half lies. Lauren Ho advised us against real names or real descriptions unless we wish to end up with a law suit and a lawyer all over. If you’re to change the fable, change it. It is true whatever anyone will tell you will end up a plot. But it has to be a very well rumminated one.

Change the names to protect those guilty ones… You, in the first place. Change things to protect those innocents of becoming guilty of making money in spite of you.

FAKE and FAKE

I think the webinarist is overlooking the most important thing about fairy tales and hero trips. Something Ofelia Pastrana mentions in her YouTube video about influencers (in Spanish…).

WE DON’T LIKE THE TRUTH NEITHER THE REALITY

People have pictures. Pictures of us smiling. Even if we had an argument in Christmas. FB has the ultimate photo of the last trip. Never the waiting in the airport. We have the picture of our last running (not me, I can barely run a block) but never confess we run because we feel old or whatever.

And it is not like we are lying. But we want our life to have purpose and be a great story. We want to be happy… So we smile hopping the smile will stuck to our face. The playwright of having things grounded in half lies is thus the fact we will end up with something impossible. Like well behaved kids who think in their parents first. Anyone here with kids under 20 who think first in you? Exceptional occurs. But normalcy won’t promote babies. Or smoking.

Add honey to the last trial’s result. Now you work at home. Now you work doing what you like. Now you can watch the most popular series without falling asleep in front of the tube. There’s no reading and reading to write a blog entry because you can steal content with an app.

Do you feel like joining my hero journey sending a heart? Or suscribing? Maybe encouraging me or discouraging me (bad comments are fuel too, so if you really want to do so you better keep quiet) with a comment?

Next entry. A tale from seven years ago. I’d like to have fun reading the bad comments. I want to see how much I’ve changed and learnt from writing this nonsense of a blog.

Pasto kalo.


[1] Do you remember He-man?

[2] I have a brother. He is the one who played Zelda Ocarine of time. I can’t play videogames since I get dizzy with the camera angle movements. I’m a fan of Link and I like a lot movie time video sequences of games. Like the one FF with a Tidus in it. Don’t remember the number of FF but I do remember Yuna and Tidus and that I didn’t watch the end. That’s how I know about this game and not about the newer ones…

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Why the weird Barbie

https://www.thenarrativecraft.com/post/worldbuilding-101-anomalies-weird-barbie-makes-barbieland-complete

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Just a dream



I had a dream.
And I wanted to kiss you.
It wasn’t true.
There’s not even you.

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¿Cuándo y dónde deja de ser el narrador el mismo autor? p1





Emma Catherine Embury, Auguste Edouart

<<El narrador de Emma no es Jane Austen>>

Teoría de la narrativa (Una introducción a la narratología). Mieke Bal.

EL AUTOR ¿NARRA?

No se me había ocurrido antes. Es bastante bobo pero ante la afirmación categórica de Mieke Bal, no puedo sino ponerme a pensar… Entonces ¿quién narra una historia?

Sí, más  a menudo; las historias se focalizan desde la perspectiva de uno de los personajes y por lo tanto, pasan por un filtro imaginario de racismo, odio o cualquier otra cosa que no pasaría por la mente del autor… ¿Tal vez sí? El asunto es: ¿qué es lo que hace el autor entonces?



Hasta ahora ya tengo la noción de que, una vez fuera de las manos del escritor y ante los ojos del lector, el autor deja de ser responsable de lo que se interpreta. El lector va a leer como mejor le dé la gana, su humor y su bagaje cultural. En ese sentido, puedo establecer que el autor deja de narrar al momento que es el lector el que lee. Y el lector decide si lee o no pero ¿cómo se establece el narrador en narratología?



¿Es durante la creación que sucede este desdoblamiento multi dimensional en el que el autor deja de ser el narrador? ¿Es el espacio tiempo de la fábula la creación de un mini universo real? Que conste que son preguntas. No sé cómo responder a eso. Tampoco pretendo que todo el mundo deba consumir de esos hongos (en mi opinión mi cerebro hace cosas bastante raras èl solito para necesitarlos, con todo y que los hongos se me hacen muy lindos) para poder contemplar está idea.


Lo dejo en que el autor NO es el narrador. Por lo menos para la narratología.No he visto si la escritura creativa discute el problema. Sé que se enfoca en insistir bajo qué punto de vista escribir la narración pero no discute quién o qué narra la fábula.

¿Está como dar dolor de cabeza? Sí. En caso de que te haya resultado un dolor de cabeza agradable, dale like. Sí crees que es discutible o sabes si la escritura creativa se inmiscuye en la definición del narrador, deja un comentario.

Pasto kalo. A pasarlo bien.

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Storytelling to have them wrapped around your finger p2



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Hi, today to nonsense again about crime… the crime of writing a superb hero’s journey to get the audience wrapped around your finger by finding the clues and witness who might prove your product/service is the best out there. It applies to plot too.


THE EVIDENCE

Maybe you don’t know, since you probably studied something else and Literature doesn’t include marketing. It might include communication but not marketing. Anyone who has studied a little of marketing knows.



WE NEVER BUY STUFF AS A RESULT OF KNOWING THE RATIONAL FACTS RELATED TO THE PRODUCT. We buy because of our feelings… Eh. Fears.



But we can make the facts to look like emotional reasons why to buy by transforming them into a key to have an epiphany.

The webinarist explains that the trials and tribulations and meetings (the first encounters with the minions or the companions) that have solved the problem, act like a «proof» in the sense of «witnessing». Thus, the audience witness the way the product solves the problem. This sounds a lot like showing, not telling. Because we won’t tell the audience what the problem is. Like a Maruchan advertisement in which a person talks and talks and talks and in order to get them quiet, the antagonist gives them some Maruchan. Voilà, the problem of getting peace is solved. But nobody says so. It is there, but nobody will tell what the problem is.

OF THE PROOFS.

Proof is a rather complicated case in traditional storytelling. There can’t be minus than three trials; yet the webinarist reduces them to two. Since the evidence sum into the already orchestrated chain of unresolved trouble that has been tackled by the product, I guess that makes it three but I understand he reduces them because of screen time prices.

In the case of Link, the trials can’t be reduced to two nor three. The whole videogame is a series of challenges to be conquered, the way RPG are designed to be solved and fought. Nonetheless, we can talk of two really important tasks: Epona and the dark Link.

Without Epona, the second companion, we won’t be able to move around Hyrule. This trial is so the hero can tame not just the wild horse but Time as well.

The dark Link means to conquer fear. We all have to tame our dark side if we’re to live. Life is not just a series of pleasant happenings. It has disgrace and misery too. Such are the dark times and feelings we need to defeat before we go onto the big journey of the day. Remember, for the journey to be meaningful (the one of the hero), the problems have to escalate as much as possible in strength and size. The worst things go, the better the ending.

If an exam is what’s making our common heroine to shiver; we have her expulsed from the library together with the handsome ________ (boy, girl, alien; suit yourself) in a tight T-shirt. Eyes stray and the study book becomes boring. But here comes the super fun app to the rescue… I’m explaining how to use storytelling to sell. Something I’m unable to just because I’m lazy. A lot lazy.

Escalating a plot is similar to getting COVID-19 after the H1N1 (which is almost as bad). Yes, I know. COVID made things look as blue as the lack of oxygen but it is the most real thing of anything really bad happening for most of us. I bet that you’re reading this from some country without war, famine or sickness… We have just lived the last. Do you get it? It has to be really really bad for it to cause feelings. Nonetheless, the problem can’t be the same or have the same solution. If it is I can guarantee the novel flying away or lost in the subway/bus and people fast forwarding the advertisement. Why do you think people send Co…la advertisements to each other in IG? Because they’re well done and have a nice plot.

Next entry will deal with encounters. We can’t have a real hero journey or quest without meeting allies or minions!