Os processos de (des)construção das identidades e suas implicações em O vendedor de passados, de José Eduardo Agualusa

Abstract

The book The book of chameleons, by the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, has as story a man who has the estrange job of selling pasts. The costumers generally use to look for him because of financial and social issues, the new pasts have the function of introduce them better for the society. The story obtains new forms when a foreigner arrives. He doesn t tell de seller who is he, instead of that, he puts himself as a white paper for the seller tell him who he would be. Issues concerned to identity and its implications become very present. The process, which in the beginning seemed to be simple, become more and more complex. The memory acts as one of the factors of major interference on the procedure, making it more difficult. The person s experiences also changes because of the new past. And the identity has also modifications in the end. Such issues, that occur because of the different shopping of pasts will be focus of research in the present dissertation