MEMORY FICTIONALIZED IN THE NOVELS ‘HERANÇAS’ AND ‘LEITE DERRAMADO’: TRACES, DELETIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS

Abstract

In the contemporary literary output that can be read as the heir of the historical novel, such affiliation being admitted or not, textualities from very different extractions combine. In this plurality, the recurrence of the memorialistic stands out. Whereas the presence of memory is now recognized as a condition of the literary, when it comes to the fictionalization of the historical past it takes on special features due to various forms of interchanges: between individual and collective past, between personal and social events, between remembering through experience and remembering through reports. This article seeks to understand traces, deletions and negotiation in the processes of memory fictionalized in the novels Heranças (2008), by Silviano Santiago, and Leite derramado (2009), by Chico Buarque. The inference is that the individual memory outlined in the two works can be read as reverberations of Brazilian society’s collective memory of the period fictionalized by the authors.