The character of fiction and the report

Abstract

Part of a research that investigates the interrelationships between Literature and Communication and its unfolding, the article addresses questions related to the presence of literary elements, especially characteristics of fictional characters, in journalistic genres such as  investigative reporting. For this, the present study will analyze the report  The works and the days", of the journalist Natália Viana, published in the magazine Caros Amigos  2005). The theoretical foundation will be structured from the conceptions of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (related to subjectivity, totalization, obscure density and singularization of the universal) and will be based on categorizations on the creation mechanism proposed by sociologist and literary theorist Antonio Candido.