Intrusive Narrator

The narrator interrupts the story to comment, judge, give an opinion, or speak directly to the reader.

In Dom Casmurro

Childhood confessions, you would have been worth two or three pages, but I want to be spared.

Bento Santiago interrupts the wall scene to remark, in the first person, that it would be worth pages and that he prefers to be spared, making clear that he is the one who controls what the reader sees.

Chapters XIII to XXII: Capitu, the Wall, and the Plan, the narrator

Imagine a grand design carried out with small means.

Chapters XIII to XXII: Capitu, the Wall, and the Plan, the narrator

She did not look me in the face, but furtively and fearfully, or, if you prefer the dependent's phrasing, obliquely and dissemblingly.

Chapters XXXV to XLI: The Apostolic Protonotary and the Secret Audience, the narrator

Another idea, no, [...] a cruel and unknown feeling, pure jealousy, dear reader of my innermost self.

Chapters LIV to LXV: The Seminary, Escobar, and the Iago Thread, the narrator

Escobar's eyes, light as I have already said, were the sweetest; so José Dias described them after he left, and I stand by this word, despite the forty years he carries with him.

Chapters LXVI to LXXVII: Escobar's Visit and the Horseman, the narrator, repeating José Dias

I do not blame the man; for him, the most important thing at that moment was the son. But do not blame me either; for me, the most important thing was Capitu.

Chapters LXXVIII to XCII: Secret for Secret and the Death of Manduca, the narrator