The first purpose of the thesis is the description, the analysis and the interpretation of the narrative procedures used by the Brazilian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro throughout his nine novels published up to now. That means to identify, in his way of telling stories, a specific relation established by the narrator with his characters, stretching to the limit the usage of the so- called free indirect discourse (the FID). This narrator´s fictional representation - herein called the headless narrator - may be found in a Ribeiro´s key character: the little soul whose lifestory is told right on the first pages of the novel Viva o povo brasileiro (An invincible memory), published in 1984. They both behave - the little soul and the narrator, side by side, in and out the story - as errant beings, shapeless figures in an on-going process of incorporating someone else´s speaches. The second purpose is to demonstrate that this same narrator, though very close to his characters, appears, nevertheless, even more attached to the writer himself, sharing with him believes, ideas and experiences. In order to demonstrate such relation between the author and the narrator, the thesis links the fictional universe of the novels and the author´s nonwritten biography. Such relation is established on the basis of a printing-press research that covers the period beginning in the 1960´s until the 2005´s, thus allowing a more comprehensive understanding of the author´s work.