Abstract
By and large, one can say that, strutured around a memorialist narrator, O Ateneu, novel written by Raul Pompéia in 1888 and published the same year in Gazeta de Notícias, has aroused a number of contradictions regarding its narrative technique in the novel's critical reception, understood either as the author's discourse (Sérgio-Raul), either as a narration strictly attached to Brazil's …