Hero in Stories

Narration is one of the most important aspects of Chronicle of a death foretold and Akhenaten. The two novels are similar because they both have surreal, journalistic and investigative approaches but they differ because in the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the story is very repetitive since the death of Santiago Nasar is very imminent.

Both the stories interview characters who somehow had links with both the protagonist as well as the antagonist. In Akhenaten, each chapter is based on one particular character with others not interfering. While in the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the information is given very explicitly.
In the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the unnamed narrator’s use of repetition confounds the journalistic agenda that the general style of the book seems to engender. The text seems to constitute a sort of ritual repetition of the crime. The narrator states over and over that Santiago Nasar is going to be killed; to be exact, he tells this fact in the very firs...