Narrating: a way of knowing/interpreting the human

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the narrating in the literary context, because the interpretive process made possible by the reading of narratives, enhances the formation of human culture and knowledge. While reading a narrative occurs a process to identify the real elements: the interpretation. From this perspective, Croce (1993) considers the art a way to know, because it consists of questions about the human being from an artistic vision that operates within the creation. Because it is an aesthetic activity, Gadamer (1983) explains that take into account the "fantastic speculation" about the man contributes to the understanding life. In this sense, art is the heritage of human research, because it mediates between theoretical concepts and the daily world. Interpreting the creation is to stand before a fact that provokes and opens the possibility in the discussion and redefinition of social life (LARROSA, 1999). The understanding and interpretation of the senses involved in a story featuring the human cognitive action (TURNER, 1996). The narrative, therefore, is an essential human activity.