Current Scientific Journal - ISSN 2764-1759 (online)

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ON MEMORY AND FORGETTING: CONSIDERATIONS FROM GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7178482

 

Gil Derlan Silva Almeida

Doctoral student and Master in Letters - Literary Studies, by the Postgraduate Program in Letters (PPGeL) of the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI); Specialist in Portuguese and English Languages and Graduated in Portuguese/English Languages from the State University of Maranhão (UEMA); Professor EBTT- Portuguese/English Languages at the Federal Institute of Maranhão (IFMA)- Campus Bacabal; Email: gilderlansilva@hotmail.com



Abstract : This article aims to discuss the memorialistic element and its consequences for the understanding of the plot of Memory of my sad whores (2006), by the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. The work, while discussing issues about the heart of human existence, such as the crisis of identity and place in the world that the character brings with him, uses the memory artifact to summarize the events that marked the life of this protagonist and influence his current way of acting. As a methodology, a qualitative research is used, with a bibliographic approach, to analyze social types and their relationships. As a theoretical support, we used the dialogues raised by Halbwacks (2006); Lopes (2014); Ricoeur (2010) among other theorists who articulate the discussion of memory and literature. We can see that it is in the love for the prostitute Delgadina that the old man rediscovers himself in life and in the present, but it is also in the past that part of the plot really becomes clear to the reader, whether due to family traumas or the monotonous years that follow him, reinforcing the importance of structuring the work around the character's self-memory, but adding to that the variant of the forgetting, another point in memory discussions that is fundamental for a more precise interpretation of this corpus.

Keywords : Gabriel Garcia Marquez. memory. Forgetfulness.

ON MEMORY AND FORGETTING: CONSIDERATIONS FROM GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ ON MEMORY AND FORGETTING: CONSIDERATIONS FROM GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal on outubro 09, 2022 Rating: 5
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