THE “TRAPS” OF THE NARRATIVE AND THE NARRATIVES AS A “TRAPS”

A THEORETICAL EXERCISE

Abstract

We seek to put into discussion, in this paper, some looks already launched on the subject of the narrative and its relations with the job of the historian and the exercise of the writer. In the first moment, we tried to identify some characteristics that can be pointed as "traps" in the exercise of the narrative that the historian builds with their text. We also dialogue with the concepts of "emplotment" and "fiction", as well as with Hayden White's theses on the tropics of discourse. In the second moment, we criticize a set of features present in certain narratives formed (intentionally or not) by gaps, fallacies and sophistries that function as a kind of "trap", weakening or undermining the comprehension of reality and feeding prejudices. To achieve that, we consider reflections made by the french historian Raoul Girardet and the italian philosopher Umberto Eco.