Nas teias da memória: o diálogo entre ficção e história em a máquina de fazer espanhóis e Leite derramado

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the dialogue between fiction and history in two works, Valter Hugo Mãe's a máquina de fazer espanhois, and Chico Buarque's Leite derramado, through memory. Therefore, we will seek to reflect on theories related to mnemonic processes based on the theoretical perspectives of Maurice Halbwachs (1990), Michael Pollak (1989, 1992, 2010), Henri Bergson (1999, 2006), Jacques Le Goff (1990) , Jeanne Marie Gagnebin (2006), Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2003, 2005, 2008), Joël Candau (2011), Paul Ricouer (2007), Andreas Huyssen (2000), Ecléa Bosi (1979), Pierre Nora (1993) and Walter Benjamin (1987), among others, emphasizing the intertwining between individual memory and collective memory, the different levels of memory, as well as the relationship between memory and forgetting and its effect on historical silences. Based on the definition of place of memory postulated by Pierre Nora (1993), we will reflect on the role of fiction in the reconstitution of events recorded by historiography and in filling in the gaps in history and memory. Finally, we will undertake the analysis of the novels, considering the metamemorialistic discourse of the narrators, the image they build of themselves, as well as the way in which fiction dialogues with historiography.