The present article seeks to analyse the narrator’s role in Nancy Huston’s novel published in 1998, The Mark of the Angel. What is particular about the narrator in question are his cynical opinions that go against Huston’s ethos, emerging from her essays. Instead of being the author’s spokesperson, the narrator is only an element of the novel’s complex structure, which serves to implicitly show the man’s value, among different textual perspectives.
The present article seeks to analyze the way in which the blasphemous figure of God in Dolce agonia by Nancy Huston allows the author to describe the sacred element in human life, seen as deprived of transcendental character. This is possible thanks to the three aspects of the text dependent on the type of God’s figure, which are: the contrast between passages marked by the cynical God’s voice and passages focused on man’s life filled with suffering; the tone and the appropriation of time var-iations and, finally, the double character of God who, at the same time, is indifferent to man’s lot while touched by his capacity of love.
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