Empatía y lectura literaria el caso del monólogo interior en Fräulein Else Elisabetha Vinci

This contribution is aimed at analyzing  how empathy is instantiated when we read works of fiction and at studying which elements can improve the consonance between characters and readers. Starting from a brief summary about empathy with regard to literary texts, the paper examines the question concerning human reception of fictional characters in order to investigate how we empathize with them through the description of some elements which foster empathy: internal focalization, interior monologue and movement description. Fraulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler will serve as case study of empathic reading.