Intrusive narrator | Quincas Borba

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

In Quincas Borba

easy remorse, short-lived

The narrator interrupts Rubião's back-and-forth with a verdict of few words, "easy remorse, short-lived," and judges the character without leaving the scene or raising his voice.

Chapters I to XII: Humanitas and the Philosopher's Death, the narrator

It likes to be loved. It is content to believe that it is

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Chapters XIII to XXVIII: The Inheritance and Rubião's Temptation, the narrator

morally, whole quilts are so rare

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Chapters L to LVII: Palha, Sofia, and Camacho's Arrival, the narrator

Morality is one, sins are different

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Chapters L to LVII: Palha, Sofia, and Camacho's Arrival, the narrator

puts a live cicada beside twenty dead ants, to compensate them

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Chapters XC to CII: Suspicion and Rubião's Candidacy, the narrator

Rubião took himself to be the author of many works not his own

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Chapters CIII to CXIII: The Returned Letter and the Ten Contos, the narrator

one need not be drunk to light a cigar on other people's miseries

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Chapters CXIV to CXVIII: The Engagement of Maria Benedita, the narrator

Simple sins of thought are subject to that same alteration

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Chapters CLX to CLXXI: Sofia Draws Back, Rubião Raves, the narrator

If you have only laughter, laugh! It is all the same.

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Chapters CLXXXII to CCI: Madness, Abandonment, and Rubião's Death, the narrator

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