MURMÚRIOS DE UMA VIVÊNCIA: METÁFORA LITERÁRIA DA EFEMERIDADE HISTÓRICA / The rustling of a living: the literary metaphor of the historical transitoriness

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2004

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The rustling sounds of a living: the literary metaphor of the historical transitoriness has as its object of study the novel A costa dos murmúrios (1988) by the Portuguese contemporary writer Lídia Jorge. The novel evokes the rustling sounds of a recent past: the colonial war between Portugal and Mozambique. Although the characters individual wars inside the family and inside the marriage assume a first plane, each of them revolves around the Imperial conflict which invades the routine, the private sphere and the daily events. As to the novels form, everything therein, is distantiated from what is whole, absolute and unified. Such traits can be observed from the starting point since the textual fabric is divided into two narratives: a brief, opening report entitled Os gafanhotos, which is presided by an external, omniscient voice, and a second, long narrative with no title, which is presided by Evas testimony one of the women of the Portuguese officers at war. Both reports are twenty years away from the narrated events. Therefore, it is the construction of the memory around the past which is highlighted: the narrators recollections, the literary language about the Portuguese historical unfolding. Within this context, the analysis focused the stories performed as well as the construction of the narrative discourses. Disclosing the sense of the text, the interpretation tried to confer meaning to the narrators act of recollection from an interdisciplinary perspective. It was imperative to indicate the specificity of the literary discourse as opposed to the historical referent. To do so, the way A costa dos murmúrios recreates the external referent, making its memory possible, was investigated. It was observed that the Jorgiano novel rescues the human senses and the suffering imposed by the war upon its victims, through the use of a metaphorical process in relation to the past. Due to those features, the novelistic discourse emphasizes the fugacity which characterizes all things, the brevity of a life and the necessity to transform the noises, the split past events, the odours, the rustling sounds which have not been extinguished yet into memory.

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crítica literária literatura letras literatura portuguesa

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