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VALERA-VILLEGAS, Gregorio. I am what i was not: Person and character in the border between the real and the fictionalIch bin was ich nicht war. Letras [online]. 2008, vol.50, n.76, pp.68-108. ISSN 2791-1179.

In this work we have aimed at trying to understand the imaginative-creative process of becoming what one is not, on the basis of the reading/re-writing of a person and a character (pariah-victim and excluded) on the edge of what is represented on the uncertain border between the real and the fictional, in the historic social context of the Venezuelan and Latin-American XX century. In this sense, this research work consists of the development of a critical hermeneutic phenomenology, whose pre-texts are some stories that stand as recreation referent of the above individuals.

Palavras-chave : person; character; narrative; fiction; pariah; Person; Gestalt; Narration; Fiktion; der Ausgestoßene.