The view from Castle Rock

ALICE MUNRO
ALICE MUNRO

 Canadian author
 2013 Nobel Prize
 Master of Contemporary tale
 Short stories
 Canada settlers (XIX century), imigration, family,
relationships and feminine narratives
The view from Castle Rock

Short story
Fiction from memories of her Family (Laidlaws -
Valley of Ettrick)
Crossing the North Atlantic Ocean (Escotland >
Canada)
“You could say that such stories pay more attention to the truth of a life than
fiction usually does. But not enough to swear on. And the part of this book that
might be called family history has expanded into fiction, but always within the
outline of a true narrative. With these developments the two streams came
close enough together that they seemed to me meant to flow in one channel,
as they do in this book” (MUNRO, 2006, p. ).
Ettrick Valley

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 Picture of 1910
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“Minor” Literature

 She “has exploited the form in order to show how a

range of dominant narratives, from historiography to
colonialism to feminism, routinely fall short of adequately
representing the live stories of women” (HUNTER, 2007,
p.148).
Historiographic metafiction

 Munro recognizes and accommodates women's

particular life histories
 Ex: Mary
Raw material of the human

Characters development;
Any human life is extraordinary.
REFERENCES

 MUNRO, Alice. The view from Castle Rock. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2006.
 HUNTER, Adrian. The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in
English. Cambridge University Press, 2007. Disponível em:
<https://librarykvmsmd.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/lanquiz-
org__the_short_oxford_history_of_english_literature.pdf>. Acesso em:
21 out. 2019.
 HUTCHEON, L. Poética do Pós-Modernismo. Rio de Janeiro: Imago,
1991.