A argumentação epistêmica de um narrador não confiável: análise da ancoragem socioafetiva em Lolita (1955), de Vladimir Nabokov

Abstract

The novel Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov, creates a lot of controversy for its content and also for the positions it triggers in the public. Therefore, this final paper aims to comprehend how the novel’s unreliable narrator builds his argumentation throughout the narrative, deciphering how and which argumentative strategies are employed by the character Humbert Humbert to influence the novel's audience. For that, we used the theoretical foundations of Socio-Affective Anchoring (AMOSSY, 2020; G0NÇALVES-SEGUNDO, 2020), which is based on the Aristotelian pillars of ethos and pathos and is a deepening of one of the dimensions of the Argumentative Theory. We recognize as results of the research the determination of the different ways in which the narrator bifurcates his image, the audience’s and the book’s subject. We consider that, in a broader way, this work can contribute to present and establish benefits arising from the union of the vital fields of the courses of Letras, Linguistics and Literature.